| Ossetians say the end of the mourning period could herald an outbreak of inter-ethnic violence among Ossetians and ethnic Ingush who live there. |
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| No one has been able to offer anything attractive enough to woo the South Ossetians and Abkhaz into a unified country. |
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| However, among the Abkhaz and Ossetians, tension and radical nationalism after the disintegration of the Soviet Union led to civil wars. |
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| Most Abkhazians and South Ossetians have taken out Russian citizenship and earn their living by trading with Russia. |
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| Many South Ossetians have a greater affinity with the Russian region of North Ossetia than with Tbilisi. |
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| The adjacent province of North Ossetia, also dominated by Ossetians, is part of Russia. |
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| He also deported the entire Ingush population and gave their land to Ossetians. |
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| During several centuries of common statehood, the Abkhaz, Armenians, Turks, and Ossetians partly preserved their cultural identities, while Albanians were fully assimilated. |
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| They believe there was one Korean, one Russian national, the rest were made up of Ingush, one or two northern Ossetians, and the remainder were Chechen. |
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| The Ossetians of today, descendants of ancient Northern Iranians, predominantly resemble northern Iranians and Europeans and speak an archaic Iranian language. |
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| Following Georgia's declaration of independence, ethnic Ossetians and Abkhazians each declared their own autonomous regions. |
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| A substantial minority of today's Ossetians are followers of the traditional Ossetian religion. |
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| Now the Georgians fight the Russians, the south Ossetians fight the Georgians, and then there's the Abkhasians and. |
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| Notably, Russia's 2008 invasion of Georgia did not trigger a Georgian insurgency against the Russians, or even against the Abkhazians or South Ossetians. |
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| These Alans are said to be the ancestors of the modern Ossetians. |
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| The Armenian Geography uses the name Ashtigor for the most westerly located Alans, a name which survives as Digor and still refers to the western division of the Ossetians. |
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| Those of the eastern division, though dispersed about the steppes until late medieval times, were forced by the Mongols into the Caucasus, where they remain as the Ossetians. |
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