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noun

Caucasia n. (Geog.) A large mountainous region between the Black and Caspian seas.

Synonyms: Caucasus.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... however, that with most primitive folk like feuds are infinitely rarer than might be expected; though with some of them they may attain abnormal proportions, especially with mountaineers who have been driven to the highlands by foreign invaders, such as the mountaineers of Caucasia, and especially those of Borneo—the Dayaks. With the Dayaks—we were told lately—the feuds had gone so far that a young man could neither marry nor be proclaimed of age before he had secured the head of an enemy. This horrid practice was fully described ...

— Mutual Aid • P. Kropotkin

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Words linked to "Caucasia" : geographic area, Caucasus Mountains, geographical area, Caucasian, geographic region, Caucasus, Transcaucasia, geographical region, Circassian