Digor people

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For district in Kars Province of Turkey, see Digor, Kars.
Digors
Дигорӕ, Дигорӕнттӕ
Ossetian flag
Total population
~100,000
Regions with significant populations
 Russiaest. 100,000
 
Digor)
Religion
Majority:
Sunni Islam[2]
Minority:
Eastern Orthodoxy[3]
Assianism
Related ethnic groups
other Iranian peoples
  1. ^ Muslim Ossetians.
Ossetian tribes (according to B. A. Kaloev).[4][5]

The Digor or Digor people (

2010 Russian Census their number was only 223.[8] It was estimated that there are 100,000 speakers of the dialect,[9] most of whom declared themselves Ossetians. The Digor mainly live in Digorsky, Irafsky, Mozdoksky districts and Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia–Alania, also in Kabardino-Balkaria, Turkey and Syria
.

Etymology

Scholars generally link the root dig- with the Circassian

endonym A-dyg-e, where the suffix -or could be a mark of plurality as found in many contemporary Caucasian languages.[10][11]
This point of view was criticized by R. Bielmeier and D. Bekoev, they raised the ethnonym to "tygwyr" in the Iron dialect, meaning "gathering, gathering, group."

History

Middle Ages

The early medieval

Mongol conquests.[citation needed
]

Genocide of 1944

During

Collaboration with the Germans and deported to Central Asia. Estimates say 50% of the Digors died during deportation. Their reputation was rehabilitated in the mid-1950s, and they were allowed to return to their homelands.[12][13]

Religion

Islam

The Digors were converted to

emigrated to the Ottoman Empire.[citation needed
]

Demographics

Digors make the majority of the Ossetians in Digoria, the western part of the North Ossetia–Alania (Digorsky and Irafsky districts), and in Kabardino-Balkaria. In the beginning of the 19th century some families from Digoria resettled in Mozdoksky District, where they reside in the settlements of Novo-Osetinskaya and Chernoyarskaya.[14]

See also

Sources

  • Wixman. The Peoples of the USSR, p. 58

References

  1. ^ "First Ethnic Ossetian Refugees from Syria Arrive in North Ossetia". Jamestown. Retrieved 2022-10-16.
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-1-57958-133-6
    .
  3. ^ "Ossetian Digorians. The mystery of the origin of iriston, digoras and the great tamerlane".
  4. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-02-05. Retrieved 2017-02-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ^ http://s50.radikal.ru/i129/1003/22/2fec9d793e3d.jpg [bare URL image file]
  6. ^ Камболов, Тамерлан Таймуразович (2006). Очерк истории осетинского языка. Владикавказ: Ир. p. 410.(in Russian)
  7. ^ "Russian Census 2002: Population by ethnicity" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 29 February 2016. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
  8. ^ "Russian Census 2010: Population by ethnicity" (PDF) (in Russian). Retrieved 19 April 2014.
  9. ^ "Digor in Russia". Joshua Project. Retrieved 17 May 2014.
  10. ^ a b Абаев, Василий И. (1958). Историко-этимологический словарь осетинского языка. Том I (А-К) (in Russian). Москва - Ленинград: Издательство Академии наук СССР. pp. 379–380.
  11. ^
    ISBN 978-90-04-11442-5
    .
  12. ^
    ISBN 0-313-27497-5
    .
  13. ISBN 0-313-32111-6
    .
  14. ^ "Ossetian Digorians. The mystery of the origin of iriston, digoras and the great tamerlane".
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