Distribution
Mediterranean tortoise habitat is North Africa, southern Europe and southwest Asia. In the former Soviet Union, it is prevalent in the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus (from Russia Anapa to Abkhazia Sukhumi to the south) as well as in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Dagestan.
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