this article discusses the german, ottoman and british rivalries to dominate the oil lands of caucasia just after the bolshevik revolution of russia and surveys the impact of above-mentioned rivalries on the general situation of region. hence, the strategic importance of the region will be discussed from the viewpoints of the three great powers. furthermore, the main military force of britain i...

â â â  the geographical territory of caucasia includes areas which have been referred to, in various forms, in geographical, historical and even literary texts. studies on the history of caucasia in different eras show that not only this region was not originally called by this name, but, later on, this name was not used for what is now modern caucasia. studies show that each part of caucasia w...

Mongol Caucasia: Invasions, Conquest, and Government of a Frontier Region in Thirteenth-Century Eurasia (1204–1295) By Lorenzo Pubblici, translated by Andrew Smaldone. Leiden: Brill, 2022. xvi, 265 pp. ISBN: 9789004503526 (cloth). - Volume 81 Issue 4

Sexual self-incompatibility is a very salient trait of woody plants, including cacao (Theobroma L.). In this species, most commercial clones are self-incompatible and, therefore, productivity depends on pollen flow for fruit formation due to the combinatorial ability each clone accept or reject tubes in embryo sac. To determine clones, artificial (manual) pollinations were performed between sam...

The rock agama, Laudakia caucasia Eichwald (Agamidae) is host to Plasmodium caucasica sp. n. and Saurocytozoon agamidorum sp. n. in western Pakistan. Plasmodium caucasica is characterized by very large meronts, 11-21 by 8-17 microm that produce 32-67 merozoites, which nearly fill the host erythrocyte, and smaller, ovoid to elongate gametocytes, 6-14 by 2.5-6 microm, with length by width (LW) 21...

In the early 20th century Russian Empire a number women-led riots called “Babi Bunty” manifested. The underlying reason of such actions was actually economic outcome WWI. Famine and scarcity at end war led women whose spouses were fighting to spontaneous protests. protests that in short time reached even furthest margins Empire, demonstrated their impact over South Caucasia, significant part Em...

Choosing a favourite image is very difficult to do, not least because different images are important to us for different reasons. I have decided to focus here on an image that is not only intrinsically beautiful, but that also emphasizes the importance of looking and seeing properly when trying to understand the world around us. For me, this image, the adaxial surface of the petal of Veronica c...