The Dvals (Georgian: დვალები, Dvalebi; Ossetian: Туалтæ, romanized: Twaltæ) were a ethnographic group of Georgians.[1][2] Their lands lying on both sides of the central Greater Caucasus mountains, somewhere between the Darial and Mamison gorges. This historic territory mostly covers the north of Kartli, parts of the Racha and Khevi regions in Georgia and south of Ossetia in Russia.
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^Janiashvili, Lavrenti. "OSSETIANS AND GEORGIANS IN KAZBEGI REGION HISTORcCIAL AND CULTURAL ISSUES". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
the Dvals probably spoke a Nakh language. Gamrekeli (a Georgian historian) provides the typical version of the Nakh theory, stating that the Dvals had...
placenames in former Dval territory, evidence of Nakh–Svan contact which probably would've required the Nakh nature of the Dvals or people there before...
mentioned by Vakhushti of Kartli in 1745, a Georgian noble. Dvals and Dvaleti The Dvals were a historic people living in modern-day South Ossetia and...
Name in Georgian Geographical location Dialect or language Dvals დვალი dvali Georgia (Racha and Khevi regions) and Russia (North Ossetia) Dval dialect...
Georgians probably collaborated in the Christianization of the Vainakhs and Dvals in the 12th and 13th centuries, Georgian missionaries were active in Alania...
affairs. King George and Virshel, Duke of Ksani raided and punished the Dvals, who took advantage of Timur's invasion and raided and looted the Ksani...
Imereti, Odishi, Ponto-Abkhaz-Guria, Racha-Lechkhum-Svaneti, Ossetians, Dvals, and all of the North. The residence of the Catholicoi was at Bichvinta...
Geography of Armenia by Anania Shirakatsi as the Dourtsk (Armenian: Դուրծկք). Dvals Peoples of the Caucasus Princedom of Simsim Khour II Chechen-Kazikumukh...
sources under the names of individual tribal groups: "Khamekits", "Serbs", "Dvals", "Sanars/Tsanars", "Masakhs/Mashakhs", "Isadiks", and others. The ethnonym...
mentions Tsanars as Tsanar(k') (Ծանար(ք)), the neighbours of Tushs and Dvals, and on whose land were the mountain passes of Alans and Tselkans. In Muslim...
Imereti, Odishi, Ponto-Abkhaz-Guria, Racha-Lechkhum-Svaneti, Ossetians, Dvals, and all of the North. The residence of the Catholicoi was at Bichvinta...
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