Re: Caucasian Alania?

Yes. I've heard of the Alans people, a migration of Iranians from
Central Asia to the northern Caucasus. Supposedly the Alani are the
easternmost division of the Sarmatians and are Iranian nomads with
some Altaic admixture.

Best wishes,
Gerry Reinhart-Waller

--- In cybalist@..., "indravayu" <sonno3@...> wrote:
> Does anyone on the list know anything about a medieval kingdom
> called Alania? I have read that it was in the Caucasus, not far
away
> from where the modern Ossetes live (and that the kingdom was
founded
> by the Ossetes Alanic ancestors), but I have come across some that
> believe that there was no such kingdom in the Caucasus, and that
the
> Ossetes originated in a region called Alania on the _western_
shores
> of the Black sea, and migrated to the Caucasus at some later
period.
> Can anyone help settle this matter?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris Gwinn