page_title: Dvals
section_title: Etymology
hierarchical_section_title: Dvals / Etymology
caption_attribution_description: English: Sisters Ana, Babale, Ludmila Dvals. Circa 19th century photo ქართული: დები ანა, ბაბალე და ლუდმილა დვალები
context_page_description: The Dvals were an old people in the Caucasus, their lands lying on both sides of the central Greater Caucasus mountains, somewhere between the Darial and Mamison gorges. This historic territory mostly covers today’s South Ossetia, a breakaway region of Georgia, and part of North Ossetia–Alania, Russia, and parts of Racha and Khevi historical regions in Georgia.
context_section_description: The name of the Dvals (Georgian: დვალნი, Dvalni) is found in old Georgian annals. Their land was called Dvaleti (დვალეთი. Dvalet`i) after them.
  The ethnonym survived to modern times as "Twal" and "Urs-Twal" (Ossetian: Урстуалтæ meaning "white Twals"). The Georgian surname Dvali (დვალი), Dvalishvili (დვალიშვილი) and Ossetian Tuallagov/Twallægtæ also come from the name Dvals.
caption: Circa 19th century photo of Dvali family sisters.
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