Digoria (

Ossetic Ossetian ( , , ), commonly referred to as Ossetic and rarely as Ossete, is an Eastern Iranian language that is spoken predominantly in Ossetia, a region situated on both sides of the Russian-Georgian border in the Greater Caucasus region. ...

: Дигорæ (Digoræ); ) is a mostly mountainous region of the

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in the western part of the Republic of

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. The inhabitants speak the archaic Digor dialect of Ossetian. Today the name most often refers to Irafsky and Digorsky districts of the republic. Its most populous towns are

Digora Digora (; , ''Digoræ'') is a town and the administrative center of Digorsky District of the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania, Russia, located on the Ursdon River (left tributary of the Terek), northwest of the republic's capital Vladikav ...

and Chikola which are situated in the agricultural region of the northern plains. The mountain areas to the south include

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and a number of historical villages where one can see the remains of many stone towers. The settlement of Galiat in particular has preserved a number of old stone towers and houses.

Bibliography

* Moshinsky A.P. Antiquities of Mountain Digoria of the 7th–4th centuries. BC _ - M . : "State Historical Museum", 2006. - ISBN 5-89076-124-2 .

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