Tskhinvali
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Tskhinvali or Tskhinval, occasionally called Stalinir during specific contexts, is the capital of the disputed de facto independent Republic of South Ossetia, internationally considered part of Shida
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Parliament RSO
Армянская Церковь Сурб Аствацацин
A vintage photo of Tskhinvali by D. Rudnev, 1886
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
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…of hornbeams", which is the historical name of the city. See ცხინვალი for more. From 1934 to 1961, the city was named Staliniri (Georgian: სტალინირი, Iron Ossetic: Сталинир), which was a compilation of Joseph Stalin's surname with Ossetian word "Ir" which means Ossetia. Modern Ossetians call the city Tskhinval…
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