Alania adalah sebuah kerajaan suku Alan (Proto-Ossetia)[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] yang berdiri pada Abad Pertengahan di kawasan Kaukasus Utara (kurang lebih di wilayah Sirkasia dan Osetia Utara-Alania pada masa modern). Kerajaan ini dibentuk setelah berhasil memisahkan diri dari Kekhaganan Khazar pada akhir abad ke-9. Ibu kota kerajaan ini terletak di Maghas. Kerajaan ini mengendalikan jalur dagang yang melewati Celah Darial.
Kerajaan Alania mencapai puncak kejayaannya pada abad ke-11 di bawah kepemimpinan Raja Dorgolel. Namun, kerajaan ini hancur akibat serangan Mongol pada tahun 1238–39.
Catatan kaki
- ^ http://www.aors.narod.ru/images/Al-VII.gif
- ^ http://iratta.com/uploads/posts/atlas/09/karta.jpg
- ^ "ALANS". Encyclopædia Iranica. Bibliotheca Persica Press. Diakses tanggal 16 May 2015.
- ^ "Ossetic Language". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica. Diakses tanggal 16 Mei 2015.
Ossetic is the modern descendant of the language of the ancient Alani, a Sarmatian people, and the medieval As.
- ^ "Caucasian Peoples". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica. Diakses tanggal 16 May 2015.
A second ancient Indo-European group is the Ossetes, or Ossetians, in the central Greater Caucasus; they are a remnant of the eastern Iranian nomads who roamed the south Western Steppe from the 7th century bc until the 4th century ad (when they were dispelled by the Huns) and who were successively known as Scythians, Sarmatians, and Alans.
- ^ "Alani". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2013-11-04. Diakses tanggal 16 May 2015.
The Alani who remained under the rule of the Huns are said to be ancestors of the modern Ossetes of the Caucasus. .
- ^ "North Ossetia-Alania". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica. Diakses tanggal 16 May 2015.
Ossetes are of mixed Iranian-Caucasian origin; their language belongs to the Iranian group of the Indo-European family of languages. From the 7th century bce to the 1st century ce Ossetia came under Scythian-Sarmatian influence, which was succeeded by that of the warlike Alani, who are believed to be the direct ancestors of the present-day Ossetes.
- ^ Waldman & Mason 2006, hlm. 12–14
- ^ "OSSETIC LANGUAGE i. History and description". Encyclopædia Iranica. Bibliotheca Persica Press. Diakses tanggal 16 May 2015.
- ^ Waldman & Mason 2006, hlm. 572–573
- ^ West 2009, hlm. 619–621
Daftar pustaka
- Alemany, Agusti (2000). Sources on the Alans: a critical compilation. Brill. ISBN 9789004114425.
- Kuznetsov V. A. Ocherki istorii alan. Vladikazvkaz, 1992.
- Kouznetsov, Vladimir; Lebedynsky, Iaroslav (2005). Les Alains. Cavaliers des steppes, seigneurs du Caucase. I-XV siecles apr. J.-C. ISBN 2877722953.
- Pletneva, Svetlana. Ot kochevii k gorodam. Moscow, 1967.
- Waldman, Carl; Mason, Catherine (2006). Encyclopedia of European Peoples. Infobase Publishing. ISBN 1438129181. Diakses tanggal January 16, 2015.
- West, Barbara A. (January 1, 2009). Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Asia and Oceania. Infobase Publishing. ISBN 1438119135. Diakses tanggal 16 May 2015.
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