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- proper noun Formal name of
North Ossetia , a federal subject ofRussia .
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Most clans settled in the territories today known as North Ossetia-Alania (currently part of Russia) and South Ossetia
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Hey, remember back in September of 2004, when Chechen separatists took hostages at a school in Beslan, North Ossetia-Alania?
White House Press Briefing: Now With 50 Percent More Cold War Tensions! Jason Linkins 2011
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Hey, remember back in September of 2004, when Chechen separatists took hostages at a school in Beslan, North Ossetia-Alania?
White House Press Briefing: Now With 50 Percent More Cold War Tensions! Jason Linkins 2011
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The Ossetians mostly populate North Ossetia-Alania in Russia, and South Ossetia a large part of which is now de facto independent but internationally recognised as part of Georgia.
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Hey, remember back in September of 2004, when Chechen separatists took hostages at a school in Beslan, North Ossetia-Alania?
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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Thirty-two gunmen attack a school in Beslan, a town in the autonomous Caucasus republic of North Ossetia-Alania, and hold more than 1,100 children, parents and teachers hostage for 52 hours.
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Bazorkino (now Chermen, North Ossetia-Alania, Russian Federation), where his family had moved from their ancestral estate at Gori, Georgia during the Russian Revolution of 1905.
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Thirty-two gunmen attack a school in Beslan, a town in the autonomous Caucasus republic of North Ossetia-Alania, and hold more than 1,100 children, parents and teachers hostage for 52 hours.
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By the end of the month, South Ossetia said it would join North Ossetia-Alania as a federal subject of Russia.
Formae Mentis NGO™ 2009
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By the end of the month, South Ossetia said it would join North Ossetia-Alania as a federal subject of Russia.
Formae Mentis NGO™ 2009
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