History, mountains and nature in an indissoluble union - Part 1

NORTH OSSETIA - A LAND OF TOURIST North Ossetia ... Nature with the extravagant generosity bestowed upon this little area autonomous republic: the exceptional beauty of the rapid river, foaming waterfalls, deep gorges, green valleys, down to the reserved forests glaciers, alpine and subalpine meadows. On the attractions of the republic has written many books and essays, filmed movies. North Ossetia - one of the finest places in the Central Caucasus. Perhaps, it is difficult to find a corner of our country, where it had not arrived in North Ossetia, tourists, sightseers, mountaineers, to go on a journey along the paths and roads hospitable republic. They involve a variety of complexity excursion tourist routes, hundreds of monuments of antiquity, dozens of easily accessible mountain passes, connecting North Ossetia with the fraternal republics: Kabardino-Balkaria, Chechnya-Ingushetia and Georgia. Who has ever experienced the beauty of mountain trails and new routes, who at least once with a backpack on his shoulders stormed the mountain passes and snow-capped peaks of the unknown will always call way-road. Daryal strengthening (XIX century). Well, if you have the mountains on the "you", before you present the stadium with dozens of alpine peaks and passes of various complexity. In mountaineering camps republic brought brave conquerors sedoglavyh vertices. Many famous climbers were the first skills of mountain climbing in the mountains of North Ossetia. Ordzhonikidze. The obelisk on a mass grave 17 000 soldiers and commanders of the Red Army, who died at the hands of Whites in 1919, three roads leading from the North Caucasus in the Caucasus through the gigantic mountain range of the Main Caucasian ridge. Two of them - the Military-Georgian and Ossetian military - must begin in North Ossetia. If you decide to travel by car to the Caucasus, there is no greater pleasure than to travel on the Georgian Military Highway. To become better acquainted with a wonderful edge, take a short tour of his tracks and roads, gorges and valleys look like now lives Ossetian people, which Pushkin after his return from the Caucasus, wrote that "the Ossetians is poor tribe of people, living in the Caucasus. " Ordzhonikidze. Monument Ordzhonikidze Liberty Square First, some history. From Central Asia to the Caucasus direction were nomadic tribes of the Scythians (VIII-VII centuries. BC. Er.) And Sarmatian (IV-I centuries. BC. Er.). On the way they are choosing a suitable land for plowing and accommodation, settle in the Aral Sea to the Dniester River, forming the whole state. Along with these tribes were distant ancestors of today's Ossetians - Alans. By the IV. Mr. er. Alani has been known as a warlike people who won more than one brilliant victory over numerous enemies. However, it was defeated by the Huns, the Alani tribe left remnants of the Kuban and Terek, where a state. Numerous historical data tell us that the new Alanian state had large trade and cultural ties with the Middle East and Byzantium. Read more: