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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Mountain ranges are commonly named by plural nouns- the Alps, Rockies, Himalayas, etc.- so it’s natural to turn the name of a mountainous region like the Caucasus into a plural. Examples:
During his conquests and travels he came to a region in the Caucases, the mountain range between Europe and Asia.
www.eaudrey.com/myth/Places/gog_and_magog.htm
It’s an old resort city on the coast near the border with the Republic of Georgia with the high mountains of the Caucases immediately behind it.
lockezinho.blogspot.com/
... as well as the much older history of Russian intervention in the Caucases.
www.amazon.com/Allahs-Mountains-Chechny … 1860646514
He began to spend whole summers at this pursuit: the Caucases in 1930, the Pamir Mountains in 1931.
books.google.com/books?isbn=031326709X
The highest mountain in Europe! Osh’hemaf, The blessed mountain! Located in the Caucases.
www.webmunism.com/webmune/Hittites
Georgia is situated along the Caucases (~5000 meter mountains), north of Turkey, Azerbaijan, & Armenia, and south of Russia/Chechnya.
whirldwide.com/wst_page2.php?idx=10&file=images/IMG_4441.jpg&&ID2=0EHU30
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