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Transcaucasia is also known as Caucasus

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Throughout its history, the region has come under control of various empires, including the Achaemenid, Parthian,Roman, Sassanian, Byzantine, Mongol, Ottoman, successive Iranian (Safavid, Afsharid, Qajar), and Russian Empires, all of which introduced their faiths and cultures to it when they invade the region.

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The region's natural resources are oil, manganese, copper, clay, and building stones. Manufactures include oil-industry, machinery, mining equipment, metal products, automobiles, chemicals, plastics, cotton and silk cloth, and leather footwear or shoes.

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The climate is sub-tropical in Transcaucasia.

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After Russian imperial expansion stopped in the mid-1800's, increased  the political unrest and repression at home encouraged many people (especially ethnic minorities) to migrate to North America. More emigrants fled from the violence of the 1917 Russian Revolution and the civil war.

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The three earlier Soviet Socialist Republics, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan all make up Transcaucasia. Of the three Transcaucasian countries, Azerbaijan has the largest population having 8.2 million people in it.

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In the 70 years of Soviet rule, Transcaucasia was transformed from a largely agricultural area into an industrial and urban region.

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The people in this region exhibited an extraordinary ethnic and cultural diversity since the early times. The ethnicity and cultural diversity in Transcaucasia was preserved by the geographic isolation of the many small ethnic groups that settled in the mountain terrain.

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- http://www.dictionary.com/browse/transcaucasia
- http://www.britannica.com/place/Transcaucasia
- http://www.britannica.com/topic/history-of-Transcaucasia
- http://maps.unomaha.edu/Peterson/geog1000/Notes/Notes_Exam2/CAT.html
- http://www.d.umn.edu/~lknopp/geog1202-1/Lecture%20Notes/Chapter%204%20(detailed).htm
- http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Transcaucasia.aspx

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Transcaucasia is a region in central Asia, south of the Caucasus Mountains between the Black and Caspian Seas in Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. It was part of the republic of the Soviet Union from 1918 until 1936