Caucasus in 2020s: Closed borders, open playlists

Mountain isolation plus long settlement — not a racial museum. A discarded racial category. Do not confuse it with Caucasus peoples. Georgia’s qvevri tradition is among the world’s oldest attested wine cultures. Modern wars are political; culture pages are not scoreboards of nations.

Stuffed vegetables, breads and herb pastes cross community lines. Armenian, Georgian and others are distinct literary traditions. Anatolia; Persianate; writing-systems atlas. See diversity pages for clines — never as country-level score talk. Neolithic horizons in the wider region.

Early state Christianization traditions. Caliphates and successors contest valleys. Ethnofederal policy freezes categories. Tourism and IT scenes remake cities. Relief fragmented polities and preserved language islands. Empires taxed valleys without erasing local law everywhere. Kartvelian, Nakh-Daghestanian, Abkhaz-Adyghe and Indo-European languages neighbor.