An ethnolinguistic region located on both sides of the Greater Caucasus Mountains, largely inhabited by the Ossetians. The northern part of the region forms North Ossetia-Alania federal subject of Russia. The southern part is South Ossetia.

A disputed region in the South Caucasus. Formally recognized as a part of Georgia by most countries, but de facto an independent country fully named Republic of South Ossetia, with capital city Tskhinvali.

A republic of Russia located in the Northern Caucasus mountains.

Formal name of North Ossetia, a federal subject of Russia.

Of, or pertaining to Ossetia or Ossetians.

A member of the Iranian people inhabiting Ossetia.

The Eastern Iranian language spoken by these people.

Autonomous oblast of the Soviet Union in the Georgian SSR existing from 1922 to 1990.

plural of Ossetian

plural of South Ossetian