Mariam LORDKIPANIDZE, Georgy OTKHMEZURI

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Mariam Lordkipanidze, D.Sc. (Hist.), professor, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Academician, National Academy of Sciences of Georgia, Merited Scholar (Tbilisi, Georgia).

Georgy Otkhmezuri, D.Sc. (Hist.), professor, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (Tbilisi, Georgia).

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OSSETS IN GEORGIA

ABSTRACT

The authors probe into issues related to the autochthonous nature of the Ossetian population that lives on the territory that used to be Georgia’s historical and geographic province of Shida Kartli (Inner Kartli); they have investigated the sources and the causes of Ossetian migrations and exposed the historical roots of the problem of so-called South Ossetia.

Introduction

According to historical sources, the Ossets came in more or less large numbers to Georgia in the 17th century; before that there were individual cases of migration from the Northern Caucasus where the Ossets were living. The conquerors (the Arabs in the 9th and the Mongols in the 13th century) moved small Ossetian groups to Georgian territory to fortify their position in the conquered lands. Later these migrants were either assimilated or……………..

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