Crossword clues for caspian
caspian
- World's largest enclosed sea
- View from Baku
- The Volga's destination
- Sea off Iran
- Sea of Eurasia
- Sea known for its sturgeon
- Sea in two continents
- Prince of Narnia
- Prince in the Narnia books
- Prince and later king of Narnia
- Nephew and successor of King Miraz of Narnia
- Largest inland sea
- "Prince ___" (Chronicles of Narnia book)
- 'Sea' that's really a lake
- Volga outlet
- Sea north of Iran
- Sea fed by the Volga
- Volga’s outlet
- A large saltwater lake between Iran and Russia fed by the Volga River
- The largest inland body of water in the world
- Volgas outlet
- Salt lake
- Eurasian sea
- Asia's ____ Sea
- Largest inland body of water
- Asian sea
- World's largest inland body of water
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
inland sea of central Asia, 1580s, from Latin Caspius, from Greek Kaspios, named for native people who lived on its shores (but who were said to be originally from the Caucasus), Latin Caspii, from a native self-designation, perhaps literally "white."
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 518
Land area (2000): 1.408361 sq. miles (3.647637 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.408361 sq. miles (3.647637 sq. km)
FIPS code: 13860
Located within: Michigan (MI), FIPS 26
Location: 46.063738 N, 88.628795 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Wikipedia
Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering (CASPIAN) is a USA grass-roots consumer group dedicated to fighting supermarket "loyalty" or frequent shopper cards. CASPIAN's efforts are directed at educating consumers, condemning marketing strategies that invade shoppers' privacy, and encouraging privacy-conscious shopping habits. CASPIAN also spreads information and opinions that purport to warn the public about the privacy risks associated with universal adoption of RFID technology, including microchip implants. CASPIAN refers to RFID tags as " spychips."
CASPIAN was founded in October 1999 by Katherine Albrecht.
Caspian is an American post-rock band from Beverly, Massachusetts, United States.
Usage examples of "caspian".
Shias from the Iranian province of Daylam south of the Caspian Sea, the Buwayhids continued to permit Sunni Abbasid caliphs to ascend to the throne.
Eventually, over the years, the Caspian Sea station was able to produce an electronic map of virtually all the ground-based Soviet missile-tracking radars, including the antiballistic missile radar systems at a test range a thousand miles away.
To these are added the Dacians, Hyrcanians, Derbicians, Carmanians, Parthians, with all Persis and Susiana, and the numerous nations upon the Caspian sea.
July is the warmest, and January the coldest month, but the mean temperature of Helsingfors in mid-winter has never fallen below that of Astrakhan, on the Caspian Sea.
And according to my invaluable informant Antipater, ten thousand more who survived the first fight further down the Bilechas were rounded up by the Pahlavi Surenas and sent to the frontier of Bactria beyond the Caspian Sea, where they are to be used to keep the Massagetae from raiding.
And we were among Sarmatian tribes as far as the Caspian Sea, and after that among the Massagetae and Dahae, who understand our language.
The railway made by him runs at present from the Caspian Sea to the Amou-Daria River, and will be continued to Bokhara, Samarkand, and Tashkend, in a northerly direction, while on the south it is to enter Persia.
But as the continents closed, the Edenic flow of the Tethys was doomed, though fragments of the shrinking ocean would survive as the Black, Caspian, and Aral Seas, and in the west as the Mediterranean.
Traces of Caspian Gulfs, formerly taken for old beds of the Amu, intersect the Turcoman territory.
Even commerce had some share in this remarkable negotiation: and the Sogdoites, who were now the tributaries of the Turks, embraced the fair occasion of opening, by the north of the Caspian, a new road for the importation of Chinese silk into the Roman empire.
Shells of the same species as those now found in the Caspian Sea are scattered over the surface of the soil as far East as half-way to Lake Aral, and are found in recent deposits as far north as Kazan.
Parthia was a small nation to the northeast of the Caspian Sea, near Bactria, and was important only because it had produced the seven great Pahlavi families, and the Arsacid Parthian kings.
The CIA had used the experience to develop a system codenamed Melody, which they placed on the banks of the Caspian Sea.
From the Caspian Sea he continued east to conquer Bactria and Sogdiana, reaching the Hindu Kush after a three-year campaign which cost him dearly.
In his narrative of the travels of Salim, envoy of the Caliph Vathek of the Abassids, he mentions a fishing party on the Caspian Sea, where a mergirl was rescued whole from the belly of a monstrous fish.