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North and Ossetia
Along the 20, 139-kilometer land frontier, Russia has boundaries with 14 countries: Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland ( via the Kaliningrad Oblast ), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, the People's Republic of China and North Korea.
* 2004 – The Beslan school hostage crisis commences when armed terrorists take children and adults hostage in Beslan in North Ossetia, Russia.
Some areas possess de facto independence, such as Taiwan, North Cyprus, Kosovo, and South Ossetia, but their independence is disputed by one or more major states.
The Republic of North Ossetia – Alania (;, Respublikæ Tsægat Iryston-Alani ) is a federal subject of Russia ( a republic ).
In November 1994, the name of " Alania " was officially added to the republican title ( Republic of North Ossetia – Alania ).
The territory of North Ossetia was first inhabited by Caucasian tribes.
The Russian Revolution of 1917 resulted in North Ossetia being merged into the Soviet Mountain Republic in 1921.
Its name was changed to Republic of North Ossetia – Alania in 1991.
The Soviet Union's collapse posed particular problems for the Ossetian people, who were divided between North Ossetia, which was part of the Russian SFSR, and South Ossetia, part of the Georgian SSR.
In December 1990 the Supreme Soviet of Georgia abolished the autonomous Ossetian enclave amid the rising ethnic tensions in the region, and much of the population fled across the border to North Ossetia or Georgia proper.
Some 70, 000 South Ossetian refugees were resettled in North Ossetia, sparking clashes with the predominantly Ingush population in the Prigorodny District.
As well as dealing with the effects of the conflict in South Ossetia, North Ossetia has had to deal with refugees and the occasional spillover of fighting from the war in neighboring Chechnya.
The Ossetian population of North Ossetia is predominantly Christian with a Muslim minority, speaking Ossetic and Russian.
bar: Forecaucasus at: 1810 text :" North Ossetia ~/ Alania "
Modern Ossetic has two major dialects: Digor, spoken in the western part of North Ossetia ; and Iron, spoken in the rest of Ossetia.
The President of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity claimed he would like South Ossetia eventually to become a part of the Russian Federation through reunification with his fellow Ossetian countrymen in North Ossetia.
During the September 2004 Beslan school hostage crisis, Zakayev consented to the request of the civilian negotiators and authorities of North Ossetia – Alania to fly to Russia to negotiate with the hostage takers.
On 22 August 1999, 10 Russian policemen were killed by an anti-tank mine blast in North Ossetia, and on 9 August 1999 six servicemen were kidnapped in the Ossetian capital Vladikavkaz.
Map of North Ossetia – Alania | North and South Ossetia

North and Ingushetia
If this is the case, it would make Gargarei virtually equivalent to the Georgian term Dzurdzuk ( referring to the lake Durdukka in the South Caucasus, where they are thought to have migrated from, as noted by Strabo, before intermixing with the local population ) which applied to a Nakh people who migrated North across the mountains to settle in modern Ingushetia.
: Senecio vulgaris is considered to be native to Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Georgia, Republic of Adygea, Karachay – Cherkess Republic, Kabardino-Balkaria Republic, Republic of North Ossetia – Alania, Republic of Ingushetia, Chechen Republic, Republic of Dagestan, Amur Oblast, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Kamchatka Oblast, Koryak Autonomous Okrug, Khabarovsk Krai, Magadan Oblast, Primorsky Krai, Sakha ( Yakutia ) Republic, Sakhalin Oblast, South Korea, North Korea, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russian Central Federal District, Russian Southern Federal District, Ukraine, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia, France and Portugal.
* Funds the website of Prague Watchdog, a political and humanitarian new source in Chechnya, Ingushetia and other North Caucasus republics.
The first was Dzurdzuketia, which consisted of the highlands of Chechnya, Ingushetia, and Prigorodny ( now in North Ossetia ) and parts of central Chechnya and Ingushetia ( although its borders, especially to the North, fluctuated ).
PACE noted the unusually high turnout in five North Caucasus republics ( more than 90 %), " Mr Putin received 98. 2 % of the vote in Ingushetia, 96. 5 % in Kabardino-Balkaria, 94, 6 % in Dagestan, 92. 3 % in Chechnya and 91. 25 % in North Ossetia.
As part of the Russian Federation, the Northern Caucasus region is included in the North Caucasian and Southern Federal Districts and consists of Krasnodar Krai, Stavropol Krai, and the constituent republics, approximately from west to east: Republic of Adygea, Karachay – Cherkessia, Kabardino-Balkaria, North Ossetia – Alania, Ingushetia, Chechnya, and Republic of Dagestan.
The Kipchaks ( Cumans ) came to the area of the Caucasus in 11th century A. D, the state of Alania established in the Middle Ages had its capital in Maghas, which some authors locate in Arkhyz, the mountains currently inhabited by the Karachay ( others place it in modern Ingushetia or North Ossetia ).
The Republic of Ingushetia (, Respublika Ingushetiya ; ) is a federal subject of Russia ( a republic ), located in the North Caucasus region with its capital at Magas.
The name " Ingushetia " is derived from an ancient village of Ongusht ( renamed in 1859 to Tarskaya and in 1944 transferred to North Ossetia ) and the Georgian ending-eti, all together meaning "( land ) where the Ingush live ".
The second Russo-Chechen war which started in 1999 brought more refugees ( at some point there was one refugee for every Ingush citizen: 240, 000 from Chechnya plus 60, 000 from North Ossetia at the peak in 2000 ) and misery to Ingushetia.
Most of the Russian forces were transferred to North and South Ossetias 31 August 2008 Magomed Yevloyev, the head of Ingush opposition and the owner the website ingushetiya. ru, was killed by Russian security forces Shortly before the unrecognised opposition group People's Parliament of Ingushetia Mekhk-Kkhel called for the recognition of the Russian semi-autonomous republic's independence, opposition activist Magomed Khazbiyev proclaimed, " We must ask Europe or America to separate us from Russia.
The Ingush ( Ingush: ГIалгIай Ghalghai, pronounced ) are a native ethnic group of the North Caucasus, mostly inhabiting the Russian republic of Ingushetia.
The eastern part of Prigorodny District used to be a part of Ingushetia ( which was a part of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR at that time ), but it was transferred to North Ossetia in 1944 after the dissolution of the Ingush autonomous territory, when Stalin accused the Ingush of collaborating with the Nazis and deported the entire population to Central Asia.
Early in the morning, a group of several dozen heavily armed Islamic-nationalist guerrillas left a forest encampment located in the vicinity of the village of Psedakh in the neighbouring republic of Ingushetia, east of North Ossetia and west of war-torn Chechnya.
Its territory corresponds to parts of modern Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia and North Ossetia.
Mamsurov's rule in North Ossetia coincided with a deterioration of the relations with the neighboring republic of Ingushetia with which Ossetians fought a war over the Prigorodny district early in the 1990s.
It included most of the territory of the former Terek Oblast and Dagestan Oblast of the Russian Empire, which now form the republics of Chechnya, Ingushetia, North Ossetia – Alania, Kabardino-Balkaria, Dagestan and part of Stavropol Krai of the Russian Federation.

North and had
Also, we should not even to-day discount the fact that a region such as the coastal lowlands centering on Charleston had closer ties with England and the West Indies than with the North even after independence.
Tom had received four years of education at the University of North Carolina and two at Harvard, and Fred had been in and out of Georgia Tech and Carneigie Tech and part of the time had been a self-help student.
a typical cantonment in the North had twelve hundred buildings, an electric-sewer-water system, and twenty-five miles of roads.
It was the opinion of some of us that these must be part of the Committeemen who had been in the Battle of the North Bridge, which entitled them to a sort of veteran status, and we felt that if they employed this tactic, it was likely enough the best one.
They all prayed now that the North would realize that peace must come, for Virginia had defended her land victoriously.
In 1607 and 1608, the English Muscovy Company had sent him northward to look for a route over the North Pole or across the top of Russia.
A century of exploration had established that a great land mass, North and South America, lay between Europe and the Indies.
In fact, Hudson's sail up the Great North River had disposed of one of the last hopes.
He conducted it with less diplomacy and more spontaneous violence than the Sicilians, but he had his huge North Side portion to exploit and he made a great deal of money.
Until 1924 O'Banion pistoleers and knuckle-duster bullyboys had kept his North Side domain solidly Democratic.
Palfrey had already made up his mind that he would allow the men, but not the women, to choose freely whether or not to go North for freedom.
The Laos government said four major Pathet Lao rebel attacks had been launched, heavily supported by troops from Communist North Viet Nam.
Mrs. Peck, later joined by the commission's vice-chairman, Mrs. Lee Patterson, took Harvey to task for comments he had made to the North Portland Rotary Club Tuesday.
After a White House huddle between the President and top lieutenants, the Defense Department reacted sharply to a cry from the pro-Western government of Laos that several battalions of Communist troops had invaded Laos from North Viet Nam.
The old woman had a nephew from North Italy, a poor boy from a lumber mill who had got tired of the seasonal unemployment, and who had migrated to Canada to work on the railway.
Here the peoples spoke the tongue of Iceland because that island had gotten the jump on the Hawaiian-Americans who were busy resettling North America and the western half of South America after the Apocalyptic War.
The high casualty figures of the Union alarmed the North ; Grant had lost a third of his army, and Lincoln asked what Grant's plans were, to which the general replied, " I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
* 1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic – two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
Albert's personal qualities won for him the cognomen of the Bear, " not from his looks or qualities, for he was a tall handsome man, but from the cognisance on his shield, an able man, had a quick eye as well as a strong hand, and could pick what way was straightest among crooked things, was the shining figure and the great man of the North in his day, got much in the North and kept it, got Brandenburg for one there, a conspicuous country ever since ," says Carlyle, who called Albert " a restless, much-managing, wide-warring man.
The area was so remote that the border between North and South Carolina had not officially been surveyed.

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