Transcaucasia

Transcaucasia, the tract of territory belonging to Russia, and extending between the Caucasus (q.v.) on the north and Turkey in Asia and Persia on the south. The provinces on both sides of the Caucasus, with the added Armenian districts, constitute Caucasus or Caucasia in the widest sense, and are under one central authority, with ten minor governments or provinces. But the government is sometimes divided into North Caucasus, Transcaucasia, and Armenia. Transcaucasia comprises seven governments (Kutais, &c.; for which see table at RUSSIA). And see Bryce's Transcaucasia (2d ed. 1878).