[
US
/ˈkæspiən/
]
NOUN
- a large saltwater lake between Iran and Russia fed by the Volga River; the largest inland body of water in the world
How To Use Caspian In A Sentence
- (l.vi. p. 165) calls the Greek fire: and the naphtha is known to abound between the Tigris and the Caspian Sea. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- For example, there have been claims that a planned oil pipeline from the Caspian Sea via Afghanistan and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea is the main prize behind the US's seemingly futile military campaign in those countries. NZ On Screen
- The climate is dry and semiarid in the steppes in the middle and eastern parts, subtropical in the southeast, cold in the high mountains in the north, and temperate on the Caspian coast.
- Here and there, in detached plateaux enfolded among the ranges (like the Salt Lake basin and the Shoshonean plateaux in America), there are isolated grassy plains, repeating on a smaller scale the great grassland which skirts the Black Sea and the Caspian. The Unity of Civilization
- The energy transportation systems of the Caspian region were originally designed and built to serve the strategic needs of the Soviet Union.
- The most important rivers that empty into the Caspian Sea are the following: Volga, the Ural, the Tirek and the Kura.
- Here, as at Resht, the moisture from the Caspian Sea does for the province of Mazanderan what similar influences from the Pacific do for California. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
- Iran is situated in Middle East, bordering the Gulf of Oman, the Persian Gulf, and the Caspian Sea, between Iraq and Pakistan.
- `Beg to report, gospodin General: Captain Miskiny is from Krasnovodsk, Caspian Sea, Turkmenistan. KARA KUSH
- More aggressive than their cousins, Caspians may supplement their fish diet with other birds' eggs and nestlings.