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
Ossetian language
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Ossetian, commonly referred to as Ossetic and rarely as Ossete, is an Eastern Iranic language that is spoken predominantly in Ossetia, a region situated on both sides of the Greater Caucasus, on the R
Latin-script Ossetian text from a book published in 1935; part of an alphabetic list of proverbs.
The first page of the first issue of the Ossetian newspaper Ræstdzinad in 1923, illustrating Sjögren's Cyrillic alphabet, including the letters ⟨ꚉ⟩ and ⟨ԫ⟩.
Ossetic text written with Georgian script, from a book on Ossetian folklore published in 1940 in South Ossetia