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South Ossetia (1537 words) |
 | The Ossetes are descendants of the ancient Alan tribes of Iranian stock. |
| The response from the South Ossetes was either to try to secure federal status within Georgia or, failing that, to seek to be reunited with North Ossetia, forming part of Russia. |
| The Abkhaz and the Ossetes reacted negatively to the first actions by the Georgian independence movement because, as they said, the flag of the Georgian Republic of 1918-21, banned during the Soviet years but raised again by the new opposition movement, "reminded them of their ancestors killed under that flag". |
| Contested Borders in the Caucasus : Chapter I (3/4) (4062 words) |
| The decrease might be explained partly by heavy losses in World War II and partly by the resettlement of South Ossetes (on orders from the Kremlin) on former Ingush lands after the Ingush deportation in 1944. |
| According to Kulumbegov, Ossetes in the AO were barred from entering higher education establishments and restricted in filling administrative posts, a fact the Georgians deny. |
| Ossetes began to be expelled from their villages which, they said, were pillaged and burned with people still in them. |
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