Caspian
['kæspɪən]
Definition
(noun.) a large saltwater lake between Iran and Russia fed by the Volga River; the largest inland body of water in the world.
Typed by Denis--From WordNet
Examples
- Through Asia, from the banks of the Nile to the shores of the Caspian, from the Hellespont even to the sea of Oman, a sudden panic was driven. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The dominions of the emperor Tai-tsung (627), the second Tang monarch, extended southward into Annam and westward to the Caspian Sea. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- After the first century B.C. the line of greater attraction and least resistance lay for a time towards the north of the Caspian. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He was to have marched upon Germany, says Plutarch, through Parthia and Scythia, round the north of the Caspian and Black Seas. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There are Hunnish peoples established between the Caspian Sea and the Urals. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They swept westward to the Caspian, and southward as far as Lahore. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They appeared as pirates, raiders, and traders both upon the Caspian and the Black Sea. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This is the case of the Caspian Sea to-day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Arabic chroniclers note their apparition upon the Caspian, and give them the name of Russians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Ten thousand years ago there was probably a continuous water barrier between the basin of the Obi and the Aral-Caspian sea. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The holy fires of Baku on the shores of the Caspian and elsewhere were also thus supplied. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He marched to the shores of the Caspian, thence he travelled eastward across what is now called Western Turkestan. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To the north of the Caspian a Mongol army encountered a Russian force from Kieff. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- These Aryan peoples come down from the East Caspian regions into history about the time that Mycen? and Troy and Cnossos are falling to the Greeks. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Merritt