A Short History of the Conflict in Georgia, Russia and South Ossetia
A Short History of the Conflict in Georgia, Russia and South Ossetia
#1A Short History of the Conflict in Georgia, Russia and South Ossetia
Posted: 8/10/08 at 5:32pm
A quick lesson for those, like me, who hate feeling stupid when these situations boil up.
The Ossetians are an Iranic ethnic group indigenous to Ossetia, a region that spans the Caucasus Mountains. They are of the Causasian race. The Ossetians mostly populate North Ossetia in Russia, and South Ossetia a large part of which is now de facto independent but internationally recognized as part of Georgia. They speak Ossetic, an Indo-European language of the Iranian branch. The Ossetians are mostly Christian.
The Ossetians descend from the Alans, a Sarmatian tribe. About A.D. 200, the Alans were the only branch of the Sarmatians to keep their culture in the face of a Gothic invasion, and the Alans remaining built up a great kingdom between the Don and the Volga. Between A.D. 350 and 374, the Huns destroyed the Alan kingdom, and a few survive to this day in the Caucasus as the Ossetes. They became Christians in the 12th century under Georgian and Byzantine influence. A large number adopted Islam, and most of them are Sunni Muslims.
HISTORY: On Georgia, Russia, and South Ossetia
#2re: A Short History of the Conflict in Georgia, Russia and South Ossetia
Posted: 8/10/08 at 5:58pmGiven our recent history in Iraq, do you think the rest of the world laughs out loud when Bush and McCain try to muster up righteous indignation with respect to this or any other international dispute?
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
#2re: A Short History of the Conflict in Georgia, Russia and South Ossetia
Posted: 8/11/08 at 12:29amJoey, would that be the Alan Ladds?
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
#3re: A Short History of the Conflict in Georgia, Russia and South Ossetia
Posted: 8/11/08 at 12:46am
The Alans:
Alan Ladd
Alan Thicke
Gracie Allen
#4re: A Short History of the Conflict in Georgia, Russia and South Ossetia
Posted: 8/11/08 at 7:48am
Don't forget the King of the Alans...
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#5re: A Short History of the Conflict in Georgia, Russia and South Ossetia
Posted: 8/11/08 at 8:31amAlan King. THAT's funny.
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