Question
A key part of this construct's modern version was first formulated by the Swedish officer Philip Johan Strahlenberg. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this arbitrary construct which sometimes uses the Kuma-Manych Depression. In ancient times, this location was associated with the Phasis River, and it was represented by the left branch of the T in a T-O map.
ANSWER: the border between Asia and Europe [accept any answers mentioning a boundary between Asia and Europe; prompt on answers mentioning only Asia OR only Europe]
[10e] Strahlenberg was the first to suggest this mountain range as a boundary between European and Asian Russia, rather than a river boundary.
ANSWER: Ural Mountains
[10h] Both a Kuma-Manych and a Caucasian boundary place a republic governed from this city in Europe. The Chess City complex is located in this city, the capital of Europe's only predominantly Buddhist region.
ANSWER: Elista (The region is Kalmykia.)
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