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The State Anthem of South Ossetia, [note 1] [a] also known by its incipit "Dear Ossetia!", [b] was adopted on 5 May 1995. The lyrics were written by Totraz Kokaev, [1] and the music was composed by Felix Alborov. [2] [3] It was composed before South Ossetia's de facto independence from Georgia, while both were still part of the Soviet Union. [4]
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South Ossetia's official circulated currency is the South Ossetian ruble, modeled off the Russian ruble, with the same denominations, decimalized to 100 Kopecks. South Ossetia mints 1, 5, 10, 20 and 50 Kopeck coins, as well as 1, 2, 5, 10, 50 and 100 ruble coins. South Ossetia does not print any paper money. [262]
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Map showing North and South Ossetia. Ossetia (/ ɒ ˈ s ɛ t i ə / ⓘ o-SET-ee-ə, less common: / ɒ ˈ s iː ʃ ə / ⓘ o-SEE-shə; Ossetian: Ирыстон or Ир, romanized: Iryston or Ir, pronounced) is an ethnolinguistic region located on both sides of the Greater Caucasus Mountains, largely inhabited by the Ossetians.
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Following the Russian revolution, [3] the area of modern South Ossetia became part of the Democratic Republic of Georgia. [4] In 1918, conflict began between the landless Ossetian peasants living in Shida Kartli (Interior Georgia), who were influenced by Bolshevism and demanded ownership of the lands they worked, and the Menshevik government backed ethnic Georgian aristocrats, who were legal ...