circum-Caspian

adjective

Surrounding the Caspian Sea or relating to the regions surrounding it.

Meanings

adjectivecircum-Caspian (not comparable)
  1. not comparableSurrounding the Caspian Sea or relating to the regions surrounding it.

    [...] circum-Caspian steppes during the Late Neolithic and the Bronze Age.

    1998, Journal of Anthropological Research, page 414
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    Apparently, a large movement of Russian hatched ducks and geese funnels into the Caspian Sea, stops in the circum-Caspian swamps [...]

    1954, Proceedings of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, page 43

    [...] circum-Caspian region is one of the richest on the globe with regard to oil and gas reserves.

    1998, Central Eurasian Water Crisis

    [...] circum-Caspian and Central Asian Bronze Age, but certainly not in the Ukraine or the Balkans.

    2003, Prehistoric Steppe Adaptation and the Horse, page 377

    [...] circum-Caspian region, notably from sites in the northern and southern Caucasus and southern Central Asia during the second half of the 3rd millennium BC.

    2007, Metals and Mines, page 128

Origin

Translations

French circumcaspien
  • circumcaspienTranslations
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