The Caucasus is a region located partly in Eastern Europe and partly in Western Asia, spanning Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and southern Russia. Bounded by the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, it inclu
Caucasian peoples: Georgians, Persians (in Azerbaijan), Circassians, Tatars, and Ingush
The medieval Georgian village of Shatili
Ethnic groups inhabiting the Caucasus region
The village of Tindi, in Dagestan, in the late 1890s
Ossetians
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The Ossetians also known as Ossetes, Ossets and Alans, are an Iranian ethnic group who are indigenous to Ossetia, a region situated across the northern and southern sides of the Caucasus Mountains. Th
Ossetian folk dancer in North Ossetia (Russia), 2010
Charnel vaults at a necropolis near the village of Dargavs, North Ossetia
Figurine of "Zadaleski Nana" ("the mother of Zadalesk"), also known as "mother of the Ossetes", who is said to have hid orphaned children in a cave during Timur's invasion in the late 14th century.
Possible depiction of an 11th-century Alan king, perhaps Durgulel, in the Senty church