Caspian

Between 622 and 750, the Islamic Caliphate conquered the entire Arabian Peninsula, Mesopotamia, and North Africa, reaching the Indus river to the east, the Iberian Peninsula to the west, and the Black, Caspian, and Aral seas to the north.

The largest continental lake in the world is the Caspian Sea.

In Greek literature, the Seven Seas were the Aegean, Adriatic, Mediterranean, Black, Red, and Caspian seas, and the Persian Gulf.

Zebra mussels arrived in the mid-1980’s in ship ballast water from the Black and Caspian Sea region, and have become a major threat to wildlife, navigation, and boating.

The Volga flows into the Caspian Sea.

Is the Caspian Sea a lake?

The Central Asian nation holds four percent of the world’s gas reserves and has oilfields in the Caspian Sea.

Caviar, a delicacy usually associated with the sturgeon that swim in the Caspian Sea, is also being produced at an American sturgeon farm in the Western state of Idaho. Idaho caviar sells for $1 a gram at the farm, but sells for five times as much when it arrives at restaurants and stores. Lesia Bakalets traveled to the farm to see what it takes to raise sturgeons and collect their roe.

Once upon a time, the Caspian tiger ranged from eastern Turkey through the southern Caspian region of northern Iran to the forested areas in Afghanistan and northwestern China.

The Republic of Azerbaijan is a country located at the same time in Asia and Europe, west of the Caspian Sea. It was the first republic to gain its independence from the Soviet Union in the year 1991