Region of Europe
The Caucasus & the Bosphorus
Europe's contested eastern edge: wine older than the alphabet, mountains higher than the Alps, and a city on two continents.
Tbilisi
Georgia
Eight thousand years of winemaking, its own alphabet, and mountains higher than the Alps.
Yerevan
Armenia
The first state to adopt Christianity, in 301, with monasteries in gorges and a mountain it can see but not reach.
Baku
Azerbaijan
Fire that comes out of the ground, a walled medieval city, and oil money spent on architecture.
Ankara
Türkiye
A city on two continents, and a Mediterranean coast with more classical ruins than Greece.