Georgian-Alan (Ossetian) Dynastic And Military Ties In The Medieval Period
Journal: NC Digital Online Collection of Knowledge and Scholarship (The University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
Year: 2015

The last cycle of Georgian-Ossetian ethnic conflict in the 1990's-2000's badly damaged relations between the two distinct groups. Hostility was provoked by a flood of publications in both countries claiming that the roots of such hatred reached deep into the past. A malignant form of ethnocentric nationalism deliberately distorted the truth of the medieval past. An objective analysis of the evidence from Georgian, Byzantine, Armenian, Russian, Greek and Latin primary sources reveals a completely