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Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions: Far Eastern Europe

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Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Far Eastern Europe

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Abstract

The Caucasus is generally regarded as the area situated between the Black and Caspian seas, including parts of Southern Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and small parts of Turkey and Iran, and comprises the largest mountain system treated in this volume. The Greater Caucasus harbors Europe’s highest mountain, Mt. Elbrus, with 5642 m in the western part of the Greater Caucasus (Fig. 1). The North Caucasus (Ciscaucasia) includes parts of Georgia (especially in Khevsureti, Pshavi, and Tusheti) as well as parts of the Republics of Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia, Ingushetia, North Ossetia, Chechnya and Dagestan of the Russian Federation, and the Southern (Trans) Caucasus. The Lesser Caucasus comprises parts of Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and small parts of Turkey and Iran (Fig. 2) (Bussmann 2017; Bussmann et al. 2016a, b, c, d, 2017a, b, 2018).

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  1. Department of Ethnobotany, Institute of Botany and Bakuriani Alpine Botanical Garden, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia

    Rainer W. Bussmann & Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

  2. Saving Knowledge, La Paz, Bolivia

    Rainer W. Bussmann & Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

  3. Institute of Botany and Bakuriani Alpine Botanical Garden, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia

    Ketevan Batsatsashvili, Manana Khutsishvili, Inesa Maisaia, Shalva Sikharulidze & David Tchelidze

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    Zaal Kikvidze

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Bussmann, R.W. et al. (2019). Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions: Far Eastern Europe. In: Batsatsashvili, K., Kikvidze, Z., Bussmann, R. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Far Eastern Europe . Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77088-8_1-1

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