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The Ossetes: Modern-Day Scythians of the Caucasus

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The Ossetes, a small nation inhabiting two adjacent states in the central Caucasus, are the last remaining linguistic and cultural descendants of the ancient nomadic Scythians who dominated the Eurasian steppe from the Balkans to Mongolia for well over one thousand years. A nominally Christian nation speaking a language distantly related to Persian, the Ossetes have inherited much of the culture of the medieval Alans who brought equestrian culture to Europe. They have preserved a rich oral literature through the epic of the ...

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The Ossetes: Modern-Day Scythians of the Caucasus 2023, I. B. Tauris & Company, New York

ISBN-13: 9780755645558

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The Ossetes: Modern-Day Scythians of the Caucasus 2021, I. B. Tauris & Company, New York

ISBN-13: 9780755618453

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