Ossetians in Georgia

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Map showing Ossetian settlements in Georgia.
Map of Georgia in 1922 with Ossetian ethnic groups shown

The Ossetians in Georgia are a group of ethnic Ossetians, settling mainly the central Georgia, the region of Shida Kartli and the district of Borjomi.[1]

History

Ossetian migration to the Georgian regions began in the 13th and 14th centuries and is believed to be connected to the fall of Kingdom of Alania in the North Caucasus to the Mongols and later to Timur's armies. They retreated into the mountains of the central Caucasus and gradually started moving south, across the Caucasus Mountains into the Kingdom of Georgia.[2][4] In the 17th century, under pressure from the Kabardian princes, Ossetians started a second wave of migration from the North Caucasus to the Kingdom of Kartli.[5]

In 1801, the Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti was annexed into the Russian Empire. In 19th century, the Ossetians also settled the historical Georgian Trialeti province.[6]

Following the

exclave - to no avail, however.[13][14]

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-8157-1513-9
    , page 296. The May 1996 memoramdum (......). Some Ossetians and even some Georgians have returned to South Ossetia, and some Ossetians have also returned to cities elsewhere in Georgia, such as Borjomi an Tbilisi.
  2. ISBN 978-0-19-025330-1
    . Retrieved 2022-02-06.
  3. ISBN 978-0-415-66683-1
    . Retrieved 2022-02-06.
  4. ^ Coene, page 151 [3]
  5. ISBN 978-9941-0-0901-3. Archived
    (PDF) from the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 3 August 2014.
  6. ^ "Ethnic Minorities in Georgia".
  7. ^ ОСЕТИНСКИЙ ВОПРОС [Ossetian Question] (in Russian). Tbilisi. 1994. pp. 153–161. Archived from the original on 21 June 2014.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  8. ^ "Russian Federation: Legal Aspects of War in Georgia". Library of Congress. Archived from the original on 16 July 2014.
  9. ^ "Russian Federation: Legal Aspects of War in Georgia". Library of Congress. Archived from the original on 16 July 2014.
  10. ^ De Waal et al, Beyond Frozen Conflict, chapter 6. South Ossetia Today
  11. ^ Ossetian Question 1994, pp. 153–161.
  12. ^ Цхинвали. eleven.co.il (in Russian). Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
  13. ISBN 978-5-9739-0123-3
    .
  14. ^ (in Russian) Map with claimed territories
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