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    South Ossetia (/ɒˈsɛtiə/ o-SET-ee-ə, less common: /ɒˈsiːʃə/ o-SEE-shə), officially the Republic of South Ossetia or the State of Alania, is a partially...
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    between Russia, alongside the Russian-backed self-proclaimed republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and Georgia. The war took place in August following a...
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    Republic of Abkhazia and the Republic of South Ossetia. Before Russian occupation, the unrecognized republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia did not completely...
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  • Seven gods and seven worlds in Ossetian mythology". Administration of the President of the Republic of South Ossetia. Retrieved 2023-01-29. Meletinsky, Yeleazar...
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    Ossetia is politically divided between North Ossetia–Alania in Russia, and the de facto country of South Ossetia (recognized by the United Nations as Russian-occupied...
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    following list of Georgian cities is divided into three lists for Georgia itself, and the disputed territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Although not...
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    Ossetian nationalism (category Culture of Ossetia)
    North Ossetia's borderland Prigorodny District, and for irredentism in South Ossetia, a territory historically part of Georgia. During the collapse of the...
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  • Uacilla (redirect from Uacilla (mythology))
    sacred symbol - South Ossetia". ugo-osetia.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-01-27. Dumézil, Georges (2001). Ossetian saga and mythology. Vladikavkaz: Science...
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    Assianism (category Culture of Ossetia)
    North Ossetia–Alania within Russia, but is also present in South Ossetia, and in Ukraine. The Nart sagas are central to the religion, and exponents of the...
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    an ethno-political conflict over Georgia's former autonomous region of South Ossetia, which evolved in 1989 and developed into a war. Despite a declared...
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  • Ossetia is a region located on both sides of the Greater Caucasus Mountains. The folk music of Ossetia (Ossetian: Ирыстоны музыкæ/Irystony musykæ) began...
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    Georgia's effective control. The former Soviet-era autonomous entity of South Ossetia is also not currently under Georgia's de facto jurisdiction, and has...
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  • after Saint George, he is the patron of males and travellers, and the guarantor of oaths. Main patron of North Ossetia–Alania. Uacilla (Ossetian: Уацилла...
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    only a handful of entities: Abkhazia, and South Ossetia. Abkhazia and South Ossetia are largely recognized by the world community as part of Georgia. Population...
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    Uastyrdzhi (category Ossetian mythology)
    (literally, "the saint of men").[citation needed] Uastyrdzhi is invoked in the national anthems of both North Ossetia–Alania and South Ossetia.[citation needed]...
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    much of the subsequent decade, the country endured economic crises, political instability, and secessionist wars in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Following...
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  • Transcaucasian Highway (category Roads in South Ossetia)
    connecting North Ossetia–Alania and Russia with South Ossetia and Georgia. In the winter months the road is often closed due to the danger of avalanches. In...
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    Russian-occupied territories (category Political history of Georgia (country))
    territories, regardless of what their status is in Russian law. The term is applied to Georgia (in Abkhazia and South Ossetia), Moldova (in Transnistria)...
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    Georgian Civil War (category History of South Ossetia)
    1993 in the South Caucasian country of Georgia. It consisted of inter-ethnic and international conflicts in the regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia...
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  • Ossetic) literature is expressed in the Ossetian language, an Iranian language of the Caucasus. The Ossetian literature is comparatively young, with its first...
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  • Tutyr (category Ossetian mythology)
    Tutyr (Ossetian: Тутыр) is the lord of the wolves in Ossetian mythology; the name "Tutyr" comes from the name of Saint Theodore Tiron. It is believed that...
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    presence of Russian forces in Georgian territory as a result of multiple recent conflicts, like the 2008 South Ossetia war, over the territories of Abkhazia...
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    Israel (redirect from State of Israel)
    Gaza". Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 15 November 2005. Retrieved 13 June 2013. Jerome Slater (1 October 2020). Mythologies Without End: The US, Israel...
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  • Alardy (category Ossetian mythology)
    in honor of Alardy and in South Ossetia - more than 7. One of the serious curses of the Ossetians: "Алардыйы фыдæх ссар" (may the wrath of Alardy overtake...
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    Asia (redirect from Name of Asia)
    Mesopotamian mythology, in the Enûma Eliš and Epic of Gilgamesh. Hindu mythology similarly tells about an avatar of Vishnu in the form of a fish who warned...
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  • Abkhazia and Adjara and the former autonomous region of South Ossetia. Abkhazia and South Ossetia, which had autonomy within the Georgian SSR during Soviet...
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  • the South Caucasus. The mythology of the Kartvelian peoples is believed by many scholars to have formed part of the religions of the kingdoms of Diauehi...
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    to Autonomy in the Caucasus: The Soviet Union and the making of Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorno Karabakh, New York City: Routledge, ISBN 978-0-41-565802-7...
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    with the visa for one of the visa-free countries. Entering Abkhazia and South Ossetia (considered by Georgia and a major part of the international community...
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    water deity is a deity in mythology associated with water or various bodies of water. Water deities are common in mythology and were usually more important...
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