Map showing Ossetian settlements in Georgia.Map of Georgia in 1922 with Ossetian ethnic groups shown
The Ossetians in Georgia are a group of ethnic Ossetians, settling mainly the central Georgia, the region of Shida Kartli and the district of Borjomi.[1]
^The Forsaken People: Case Studies of the Internally Displaced by Roberta Cohen, Francis Mading Deng. Brookings Institution Press, 1998. ISBN 0-8157-1513-7, ISBN 978-0-8157-1513-9, page 296. The May 1996 memoramdum (......). Some Ossetians and even some Georgians have returned to South Ossetia, and some Ossetians have also returned to cities elsewhere in Georgia, such as Borjomi an Tbilisi.
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