Was there ever a place called "Caucasia"?

Question

if "white" people are caucasian, whas there ever an area called "caucasia" or what is caucasian in referance to?

Answer 1

As everyone is saying, it's from the "Caucasus" (Kavkaz) Mountains which are in Georgia and Armenia, a region arbitrarily considered to divide Europe from Asia.

I think there was a theory in the 19th century that European people originated there. Probably associated with the myth of Noah's Ark and its coming to land on Mount Ararat (Armenia).

In Crete, the local mythology is that the god Zeus brought his bird Europa there, flying over from Egypt, and the populating of Europe started with that union. There is, I think, more scientific support for the idea that the first Europeans of Homo Sapiens were Cretans than that they were Armenians.... a third real possibility is that they were Portuguese ~ there are cave pictographs about 34,000 years old.

Answer 2

Caucasian mountains.
Colour has nothing to do with people groups. The dravidians are also caucasian (India, Pakistan,).
Pre Moari people of New Zealand were white. Ainu of Japan were white.
The people who built stonehenge may have been white looking Africans ie they had adapted to the English climate.

"Whiteness"is simply an adaptation to lower intensity sunlight.
If you don't want to develop osteoporosis and you want to live in northern Europe then the melanin has to be reduced hence white (well pink actually). The colour of all peoples skin is a protection for the level of sunlight that that people has adapted to. No peoples has lost the abillity to produce menalin so any group could adapt darker or lighter as needed.

Scientifically the concept of race has been dismissed by most scientists.

Cultrally it is still in some senses important to think of lineag etc but we must all remember that we are all Homo Sapiens.
(Or descendants of Adam; whateva)

Answer 3

Yes. The Caucus mountains are between south eastern Europe and what we consider the Middle East. The cover areas of Georgia, Turkey, and Azerbaijan to name a few.

Answer 4

Caucus Mountains in Europe

Answer 5

You got it. The word comes from the Caucasus mountain range in Eastern Europe.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasus

Answer 6

Hi Look up "Caucasian mountains."

Answer 7

Caucasians come from the Caucas mountains as Blacks come from the Black mountains. What a dumb question, but of course not as dumb as my answer, so I am sorry!!!!!!

Answer 8

Was there ever a place called Eskimo?

Answer 9

http://www.universalworkshop.com/xenophil/pages/caucasia.htm

Answer 10

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Caucasia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasus