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In more-recent history, the Ossetians were involved in the Ossetian–Ingush conflict (1991–1992) and Georgian–Ossetian conflicts (1918–1920, early 1990s) and in the 2008 South Ossetia war between Georgia and Russia.
South Ossetian people (7 C, 1 P) W. Ossetian women (1 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Ossetian people" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
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.
Ossetians speak Ossetian, an Eastern Iranian language, which has two major dialects: Digor and Iron. The written form of Ossetian is based on the Cyrillic alphabet, with additional characters to represent unique Ossetian sounds. Ossetian literature dates back to the 18th century, and prominent authors include Kosta Khetagurov and Nart Sagalayev ...
Mythologist Aleksandra Barkova finds an obvious similarity in a comparative analysis of the Ossetian tale about brothers with the Mayan myth about the twins. [8] Abaev discovered a striking parallelism between the legend of Akhsar and Akhsartag and the Italian legend of Romulus and Remus , in particular the motif of the twins' connection with ...
Maharbek Safarovich Tuganov (Ossetian: Тугъанты Сафары фырт Махарбег, 1881–1952) was an Ossetian painter, illustrator and graphic designer, mostly known for his illustrations for the Nart saga. He was people's artist of North Ossetian ASSR and honored worker of arts of Georgian SSR. He was also a pupil of Ilya Repin.
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South Ossetia, [a] officially the Republic of South Ossetia or the State of Alania, [7] is a partially recognised [8] landlocked country in the South Caucasus. [9] It has an officially stated population of just over 56,500 people (2022), who live in an area of 3,900 square kilometres (1,500 sq mi), with 33,000 living in the capital city, Tskhinvali.