North Ossetia–Alania (rus)

North Ossetia–Alania

North Ossetia–Alania ranks 6,201st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Oshkosh, Wisconsin, İskenderun, and Huntly, New Zealand. Memorable people born in North Ossetia–Alania include Artur Taymazov, Khadzhimurat Gatsalov, and Khetag Gazyumov. North Ossetia–Alania has been the birth place of many wrestlers. North Ossetia–Alania is located in Russia.

North Ossetia–Alania, officially the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania, is a republic of Russia situated in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe. It borders the country of Georgia to the south, and the Russian federal subjects of Kabardino-Balkaria to the west, Stavropol Krai to the north, Chechnya to the east and Ingushetia to the southeast. Its population according to the 2021 Census was 687,357. The republic’s capital city is Vladikavkaz, located on the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains. Read more on Wikipedia