An ethnolinguistic region located on both sides of the Greater Caucasus Mountains, largely inhabited by the Ossetians. The northern part of the region forms North Ossetia-Alania federal subject of Russia. The southern part is South Ossetia.

A republic of Russia located in the Northern Caucasus mountains.

A disputed region in the South Caucasus. Formally recognized as a part of Georgia by most countries, but de facto an independent country fully named Republic of South Ossetia, with capital city Tskhinvali.

Formal name of North Ossetia, a federal subject of Russia.

plural of Ossetian

Of, or pertaining to Ossetia or Ossetians.

A member of the Iranian people inhabiting Ossetia.

The Eastern Iranian language spoken by these people.

Autonomous oblast of the Soviet Union in the Georgian SSR existing from 1922 to 1990.

plural of South Ossetian