RUSSIAN-GEORGIAN WAR AND THE CONFLICT IN GEORGIA’S PROVINCE OF SOUTH OSSETIA

 

What is South Ossetia?

Pre-history of the conflict

Ethnic makeup of the area

Chronology of the conflict

Maps of the area

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KJ

 

 

 

MAPS, HISTORY AND CORPORATE INTERESTS

Andrew Andersen

 

 

The below maps clearly show that all modern propaganda regarding one “United Ossetia” so far unknown to historians but according to some Russian authors – incorporated into Russia in 1774 – is nothing but pure insinuation aimed exclusively at fuelling irrational and counter-productive conflict between Ossetians and Russians. I am deeply apologetic for the fact that the below maps are in Russian but, alas, British, American and other Western historians hoped and sincerely believed that the region in question would never leave the Russian realm and spared efforts and funds on the research. I made some of the historical maps of the Caucasus but not all the required ones. But in any case, I would like to show you not my maps (who knows whether I was objective while making them?) but maps printed in the USSR and pre-communist Russia.

 

 

 

 

 

On your right you can see the map of Eastern Georgia just before it was incorporated into the Russian Empire.

 

Here we can see that not only the former South Ossetian Autonomous Province was part and parcel of that Georgian kingdom but even some parts of Russian Ossetia as well.

 

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Here is an old Russian map that depicts incorporation of various parts of the Caucasus into the Russian Empire  

 

Oh yes! «Northern Ossetia» has been incorporated in 1774.

But where is “South Ossetia”?! Oh my God! It is not there!

 

No wonder… it was annexed together with Eastern Georgia in 1801 as its integral part.

 

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On your right please find a vintage administrative map of Russian possessions in the Caucasus, and… you ar lucky! It is in English (printed in London at the end of the 19th century).

 

And where is Alania? It is with the Terek territory where it really was!

 

And where is “South Ossetia”?

Nowhere! It was non-existent! Instead of it there were counties and districts of the provinces of Tiflis and Kutais forming the core of Georgia.

 

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And here is an old administrative map of Russian Georgia, as of 1914, and below – a black-and-white map of Western Transcaucasia specially created in 1922 for a classified manual for Red Army officers.

 

Where is Alania? In the Terek territory of course!

 

And where is “South Ossetia”? It is non-existent its territory being within the provinces of Tiflis and Kutais (predominantly within the county of Gori).

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Conclusion?

Wellit looks like if there was any United Ossetiathat fell u nder the Russian sceptre in 1774 it was limited to modern Northern Ossetia-Alaniaof Russian Federation.

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