Lesser Caucasus
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The Lesser Caucasus or Lesser Caucasus Mountains, also called Caucasus Minor, is the second of the two main ranges of the Caucasus Mountains, of length about 600 km. The western portion of the Lesser
Aragats mount in Armenia
Greater Caucasus
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The Greater Caucasus is the major mountain range of the Caucasus Mountains. It stretches for about 1,200 kilometres from west-northwest to east-southeast, from the Taman Peninsula of the Black Sea to
Lesser Caucasus
…about 600 km (370 mi). The western portion of the Lesser Caucasus overlaps and converges with east Turkey and northwest Iran. It runs parallel to the Greater Caucasus, traversing through the Armenian highlands, at a distance averaging about 100 km (62 mi) south from the Likhi Range (Georgia), and limits east Turkey…
Greater Caucasus Range near Arkhyz
14th-century Georgian Orthodox Gergeti Trinity Church building, with Mount Kazbek in the background
The snow-capped peaks of the Greater Caucasus