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Ossetia

Ossetia is the homeland of the ethnic Ossetes in the Greater Caucasus mountain range. The Soviets split the region between Russia and Georgia, and Georgia's portion has since declared independence.
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  • Type: region
  • Description: ethnolinguistic region located on both sides of the Greater Caucasus Mountains, largely inhabited by the Ossetians
  • Also known as: “Ir”, “Iriston”, and “Iryston”

Ossetia

Latitude of center
42.96° or 42° 57′ 36″ north
Longitude of center
44.2° or 44° 12′ east
Wiki­data ID
Q106955
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Vietnamese—“Ossetia” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Уаԥстәыла”
  • Albanian: “Osetia”
  • Arabic: “أوسيتيا”
  • Armenian: “Օսեթիա”
  • Armenian: “Օսիա”
  • Avaric: “Гьиристан”
  • Basque: “Osetia”
  • Belarusian: “Асеція”
  • Bengali: “ওশেটিয়া”
  • Bulgarian: “Осетия”
  • Catalan: “Ossètia”
  • Chechen: “ХӀирийчоь”
  • Chinese: “奥塞梯”
  • Chinese: “奧塞提亞”
  • Chinese: “奧塞梯”
  • Croatian: “Osetija”
  • Czech: “Osetie”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Osetya”
  • Dutch: “Ossetie”
  • Dutch: “Ossetië”
  • Esperanto: “Osetio”
  • Estonian: “Osseetia”
  • Finnish: “Ossetia”
  • French: “Ossetia”
  • French: “Ossetie”
  • French: “Ossétie”
  • Galician: “Osetia”
  • Georgian: “ოსეთი”
  • German: “Ossetien”
  • Greek: “Οσσετία”
  • Hebrew: “אוסטיה (חבל ארץ)”
  • Hebrew: “חבל אוסטיה”
  • Hungarian: “Oszétia”
  • Ido: “Osetia”
  • Indonesian: “Ossetia”
  • Ingush: “ХӀирийче”
  • Irish: “An Oiséit”
  • Italian: “Ossezia”
  • Japanese: “イリストン”
  • Japanese: “オセーチヤ”
  • Japanese: “オセチア”
  • Japanese: “オセチヤ”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Тегей”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Osetiya”
  • Korean: “오세티야”
  • Kurdish: “Osêt”
  • Kurdish: “Osetya”
  • Kurdish: “ئۆسەتیا”
  • Latin: “Alania,”
  • Latin: “Alania”
  • Latin: “Ossetia”
  • Lithuanian: “Osetija”
  • Low German: “Ossetien”
  • Malagasy: “Ôsetia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ossetia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ossetia”
  • Norwegian: “Ossetia”
  • Ossetian: “Ир”
  • Ossetian: “Иристон”
  • Ossetian: “Ирыстон”
  • Persian: “آسستان”
  • Persian: “اسستان”
  • Persian: “اوستیا”
  • Persian: “ایرستون”
  • Polish: “Osetia”
  • Portuguese: “Ossétia”
  • Russian: “Осетия”
  • Scots: “Ossetie”
  • Serbian: “Осетија”
  • Slovak: “Osetsko”
  • Spanish: “Osetia”
  • Swedish: “Iriston”
  • Swedish: “Ossetien”
  • Tatar: “Осетия”
  • Turkish: “Osetya”
  • Ukrainian: “Осетія”
  • Venetian: “Osèsia”
  • Vietnamese: “Ossetia”

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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Ossetia”. Photo: Evgeny Fedorov, CC BY 3.0.