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Transcaucasia

a region in central Asia, south of the Caucasus Mountains between the Black and Caspian Seas in Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan: a constituent republic of the Soviet Union from 1918 until 1936

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Transcaucasia

the part of the Caucasus lying south of the Glavnyi, or Vodorazdel’nyi, Range of the Greater Caucasus. The greater part of the southern slopes of the Greater Caucasus, the Colchis Lowland and the Kura depression, the Lesser Caucasus, the Dzhavakhet-Armenian Plateau, and the Talysh Mountains with the Lenkoran’ Low-land are included within Transcaucasia. Within its limits are the major regions of the Georgian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, and Armenian SSR, which constitute the Transcaucasian Economic Region of the USSR; in this sense the territory of Transcaucasia is somewhat larger, since it includes parts of Georgia and Azerbaijan that are north of the Glavnyi Range.

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"The main goal of the EU in the South Caucasus should be to help Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia became stable democratic states that can have good neighborly relations with one another, and be integrated with the EU policies," Kirilov declared before the vote on his report entitled "The Need for a Strategy in the South Caucasus," which was adopted with an overwhelming majority by the EP on Thursday.

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