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unusual facts about Islam in North Ossetia–Alania



Alagirsky

Alagirskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which Alagir Town Under District Jurisdiction in Alagirsky District of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania is incorporated as

Alagirsky District, a district of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Russia

Alania

The term "Alania" quickly became popular in Ossetian daily life through the names of various enterprises, a TV channel, political and civic organizations, a publishing house, a soccer team, an airline company etc.

One retreated into the foothills and valleys of the central Caucasus and produced the two principal Ossetian groups, Digor and Iron.

Ardonsky

Ardonskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which Ardon Town Under District Jurisdiction in Ardonsky District of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Russia is re incorporated as

Ardonsky District, a district of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania

Bekan

Bekan, Russia, a rural locality (a settlement) under the administrative jurisdiction of Ardon Town Under District Jurisdiction in Ardonsky District of the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania, Russia

Circassia

Circassia’s historical great range extended from the Taman Peninsula in the west, to the town of Mozdok in today’s North Ossetia–Alania in the east.

Constantine IX Monomachos

At the time of Constantine's death in January 1055, the emperor had another mistress, a certain "Alan princess", probably Irene, daughter of the Georgian Bagratid prince Demetrius.

Digorsky

Digorsky District, a district of the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania, Russia

Digorskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which Digora Town Under District Jurisdiction in Digorsky District of the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania, Russia is incorporated as

History of North Ossetia–Alania

Some 70,000 South Ossetian refugees were resettled in North Ossetia, sparking clashes with the predominantly Ingush population in the Prigorodny District.

As of 1944, the part of the Prigorodny District on the right bank of the Terek River had been part of Chechen-Ingush ASSR, but it was granted to North Ossetia in following Joseph Stalin's deportation of the Chechens and Ingush to Central Asia.

Julia Dolgorukova

# Exhibition Gallery of the tourist complex «GOLD CITY» (Turkey Alania 2010 January–August)

Mozdok, Republic of North Ossetia–Alania

From 1961 to 1998, the 182nd Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment of Long Range Aviation, flying Tupolev Tu-95s, was based there.

Mozdoksky

Mozdokskoye Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which Mozdok Town Under District Jurisdiction in Mozdoksky District of the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania, Russia is incorporated as

Mozdoksky District, a district of the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania, Russia

North Ossetia–Alania

The Ossetian population of North Ossetia is predominantly Christian with a Muslim minority, speaking Ossetian and Russian.

There are two official languages in North Ossetia – Russian, which is official for all federal subjects of Russia (North Ossetia being a republic), and Ossetian.


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