Do you consider the Caucasus to be European?

[Terek]

A tense debate has forced me to ask this question as a poll.
With geography, the Caucasus Mountains region is usually considered to be a part of Europe.
The debate here is culturally, are they European?

The region I refer to is

-The North Caucasian region of Russia, which includes the Republics of:
Adygeya
Kabardino-Balkaria
Karachai-Cherkesia
North Ossetia
Ingushetia
Chechnya
Dagestan

-The Trans-Caucasian Republics
Georgia
Armenia
Azerbaijan
and the regions Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Ajaria, NagornoKarabakh.

So, are they Europe? Why or why not? Are some regions more "European" than others? Is this based on ethnicity, religion, politics...?

[Ibericus]

Culturally and mentally I don't know them much. But I know them genetically and they are surely not European.

[Efim45]

This is Europe:

[Sikeliot]

No, I don't. culturally, I have read Georgia is more European than Armenia, and Azerbaijan has almost nothing European in its culture.

[Dario Argento]

I consider them the exact border between Middle East and Europe. And they're such genetically. In Dodecad I think they are rougly half West Asian and Half Northern Europe (Sarmatian and Scythian or something more ancient from the steppes) with minor North East Asian admixture.

Culturally they're isolates I'd say. People usually argue they don't have much to do with Europe, but I don't consider them to similar to Middle Easterns like Lebanese, Syrians, Palestineans, etc.

[Sikeliot]

I consider them the exact border between Middle East and Europe. And they're such genetically. In Dodecad I think they are rougly half West Asian and Half Northern Europe (Sarmatian and Scythian or something more ancient from the steppes) with minor North East Asian admixture.

Georgians are 70% + West Asian and Armenians are about half.. I don't think they are half Northern European though.

[Beorn]

[Hess]

Culturally, absolutely not. Physically, some of them can pass as Italian, Greek, South Slavic, and even East Slavic

[Efim45]

The Kardashians are filth and it is a surprise they haven't been murdered yet.

[Beorn]

The Kardashians are filth and it is a surprise they haven't been murdered yet.

Queer.