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Greater Caucasus ((ロシア語:Большой Кавказ); (アゼルバイジャン語:Böyük Qafqaz); (グルジア語:დიდი კავკასიონი), sometimes translated as "Caucasus Major", "Big Caucasus" or "Large Caucasus") is the major mountain range of the Caucasus Mountains. The range stretches for about from west-northwest to east-southeast, between the Taman Peninsula of the Black Sea to the Absheron Peninsula of the Caspian Sea: from the Western Caucasus in the vicinity of Sochi on the northeastern shore of the Black Sea and reaching nearly to Baku on the Caspian. The range is traditionally separated into three parts: *Western Caucasus, from the Black Sea to Mount Elbrus *Central Caucasus, from Mount Elbrus to Mount Kazbek *Eastern Caucasus, from Mount Kazbek to the Caspian Sea In the wetter Western Caucasus, the mountains are heavily forested (deciduous forest up to , coniferous forest up to and alpine meadows above the tree line). In the drier Eastern Caucasus, the mountains are mostly treeless. ==Europe—Asia boundary== The watershed of the Caucasus is also considered the boundary between Eastern Europe and Western Asia. The European part north of the watershed is known as Ciscaucasia, the Asiatic part to the south as Transcaucasia, which is dominated by the Lesser Caucasus mountain range and whose western portion converges with Eastern Anatolia.〔18th-century definitions drew the boundary north of the Caucasus, across the Kuma–Manych Depression. This definition remained in use in the Soviet Union during the 20th century. In western literature, the continental boundary has been drawn along the Caucasus watershed since at least the mid 19th century. See e.g. Baron von Haxthausen, "Transcaucasia" (1854); review (Dublin university magazine ) Douglas W. Freshfield, "(Journey in the Caucasus )", Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, Volumes 13-14, 1869.〕 The border of Russia with Georgia and Azerbaijan runs along the most of the Caucasus' length. The Georgian Military Road (Darial Gorge) and Trans-Caucasus Highway traverse this mountain range at altitudes of up to . 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Greater Caucasus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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