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Ossetian Literature
Ossetian (or Ossetic) literature is expressed in the Ossetian language, an Iranian language of the Caucasus. The Ossetian literature is comparatively young, with its first specimen published in the 1890s. Its golden age was in the years after the October Revolution in Russia, when local languages received a significant impact. The most popular motives of the Ossetic literature are: * the life of highlanders, especially the poor ones, in 19th century or in earlier times; * the role of traditional right in the life of Ossetians (including criticism of ''vendetta''-like revenge tradition of "taking blood back" and other "harmful traditions"); * the construction of socialism (often in contrast to the previous state of things): Ossetians really received better life compared to the tsarist regime time, when they felt severe lack of agricultural lands, poverty and illiteracy; * the Great Patriotic War (the name of the World War II in Soviet Union): every tenth Ossetian man died during th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ossetian Language
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 Greater Caucasus. It is the native language of the Ossetian people, and is one of the few Iranian languages spoken in Europe; it is a relative and possibly a descendant of the extinct Scythian, Sarmatian, and Alanic languages. The northern half of the Ossetia region is part of Russia and is known as North Ossetia–Alania, while the southern half is part of the ''de facto'' country of South Ossetia (recognized by the United Nations as Russian-occupied territory that is ''de jure'' part of Georgia). Ossetian-speakers number about 614,350, with 451,000 recorded in Russia per the 2010 Russian census. History and classification Ossetian is the spoken and literary language of the Ossetians, an Iranian ethnic group living in the central part of the Caucasus and constituting the basic population of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shamil Jigkayev
Shamil (Arabic: شَامِل ''shāmil'') is a lesser common masculine Arabic name. The name is usually from the adjective which have several correlated meanings from the Arabic "complete, comprehensive, universal" but could also mean "embodying, profound". Therefore, the adjective stems from the Arabic verb ''shamila'' (Arabic: شَمِلَ) meaning "to comprehend, include, everything" but which is linked to the other meanings: 1) "union, unity, correlation, bond" 2) "universal, predominant, embrace" The feminine form of the name is ''Shamila'' (Arabic: شَامِلَة ''shāmilah''). The name may refer to: Geography * Shamil, Hormozgan, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran * Shamil-e Bala, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran * Shamil Rural District, a rural district in Hormozgan Province, Iran Name * Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan (1797–1871), leader of resistance to Russian rule over the Caucasus * Shamil Abbyasov (born 1957), Soviet Kyrgyzstani retired long jumper and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literature By Ethnicity
Literature is any collection of Writing, written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include oral literature, much of which has been transcribed. Literature is a method of recording, preserving, and transmitting knowledge and entertainment, and can also have a social, psychological, spiritual, or political role. Literature, as an art form, can also include works in various non-fiction genres, such as biography, Diary, diaries, memoir, Letter (message), letters, and the essay. Within its broad definition, literature includes non-fictional books, articles or other printed information on a particular subject.''OED'' Etymology, Etymologically, the term derives from Latin language, Latin ''literatura/litteratura'' "learning, a writing, grammar," originally "writing formed with letters," from ''litera/littera'' "letter". In sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iranic Literature
The Iranian peoples or Iranic peoples are a diverse grouping of Indo-European peoples who are identified by their usage of the Iranian languages and other cultural similarities. The Proto-Iranians are believed to have emerged as a separate branch of the Indo-Iranians in Central Asia around the mid-2nd millennium BC. At their peak of expansion in the mid-1st millennium BC, the territory of the Iranian peoples stretched across the entire Eurasian Steppe, from the Great Hungarian Plain in the west to the Ordos Plateau in the east and the Iranian Plateau in the south.: "From the first millennium b.c., we have abundant historical, archaeological and linguistic sources for the location of the territory inhabited by the Iranian peoples. In this period the territory of the northern Iranians, they being equestrian nomads, extended over the whole zone of the steppes and the wooded steppes and even the semi-deserts from the Great Hungarian Plain to the Ordos in northern China." The an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nafi Jusoyty
Nafi may refer to: * Nafi language People *Basheer Nafi * Abu Suhail an-Nafi *Uqba ibn Nafi * Ibn al-Nafis *Nafi Tuitavake * Nafi Mersal *Nafi Mawla Ibn Umar *Nafi Toure * Nafi' bin Hilal al-Jamali * Nafi‘ al-Madani * Nafi ibn al-Harith *Nafi Thiam Nafissatou "Nafi" Thiam (; born 19 August 1994) is a Belgian athlete specializing in multi-event competition. Thiam is a two-time Olympic gold medalist, winning the heptathlon event at the 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics. She is the only Belgian ... * Nafi Kabakoğlu * Sharfin Al Nafi See also * NAFI (other) {{dab, surname, given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elbazduko Britayev
Elbazduko Britayev ( os, Брытъиаты Цопаны фырт Елбыздыхъо , russian: Елбыздыко Бритаев) (23 March 1881 – 25 September 1923) was an Ossetian author and playwright, considered the founder of Ossetian traditional theatre. Many phrases from his works have become proverbs A proverb (from la, proverbium) is a simple and insightful, traditional saying that expresses a perceived truth based on common sense or experience. Proverbs are often metaphorical and use formulaic speech, formulaic language. A proverbial phra ..., such as "Love does not follow the rules of wisdom", and the characters that he created are being increasingly re-used. 1881 births 1923 deaths Ossetian writers Writers from the Russian Empire Dramatists and playwrights from the Russian Empire {{Russia-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seka Gadiyev
Seka Gadiyev ( os, Гæдиаты Секъа) (1855/57 - August 3, 1915) was an Ossetian writer. When he was eighteen years old, he learned to read and write in Georgian and started working at the Georgian Orthodox The Apostolic Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Georgia ( ka, საქართველოს სამოციქულო ავტოკეფალური მართლმადიდებელი ეკლესია, tr), commonly ... church in his village. He then began to read a lot, and became familiar with several works of contemporary Georgian writers. In his works he often portrayed the tragic lives of the Ossetian poor, oppressed by chiefs and nobles. His works are richly influenced by the folklore and various legends of the cultures of the Caucasus. He is considered by some literary scholars to be the founder of classical Ossetian prose. After his death on July 21 (August 3 in the Julian calendar), 1915, he was buried in the cemetery Mesc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arsen Kotsoyev
Arsen Kotsoyev ( os, Коцойты Арсен, Kocojty Arsen; January 15, 1872 - February 4, 1944) is one of the founders of Ossetic prose, who had a large influence on the formation of the modern Ossetic language and its functional styles. He participated in all of the first Ossetic periodicals, and was one of the most notable Ossetian publicists. There are streets named after Kotsoyev in Vladikavkaz and Beslan. His writings are mainstays of school courses on Ossetian literature. Life Kotsoyev was born to a poor family in the Ossetian countryside (the village of Gizel, close to Vladikavkaz) in Terek Oblast. At the age of nine he was enrolled in the local school. There he found a large collection of books, which enriched his education. After school he studied at the Ardon Orthodox Seminary, but a sudden illness made him leave the seminary. He returned to Gizel and began writing short essays for newspapers of the North Caucasus. He also worked as a teacher at the local school. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iranian Languages
The Iranian languages or Iranic languages are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family that are spoken natively by the Iranian peoples, predominantly in the Iranian Plateau. The Iranian languages are grouped in three stages: Old Iranian (until 400 BCE), Middle Iranian (400 BCE–900 CE) and New Iranian (since 900 CE). The two directly-attested Old Iranian languages are Old Persian (from the Achaemenid Empire) and Old Avestan (the language of the Avesta). Of the Middle Iranian languages, the better understood and recorded ones are Middle Persian (from the Sasanian Empire), Parthian (from the Parthian Empire), and Bactrian (from the Kushan and Hephthalite empires). , there were an estimated 150–200 million native speakers of the Iranian languages. '' Ethnologue'' estimates that there are 86 languages in the group, with the largest among them being Persian (Farsi, Dari, and Tajik dialects), Pashto, Kurdish, Luri, and Balochi. Terminol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yakov Khozijev
Yakov Khoziev ( os, Хозиты Яков) (February 8, 1916 – July 9, 1938) was an Ossetians, Ossetian poet. After having studied for some time at an agricultural school, in 1932 he seriously devoted himself to literature, entering the literary faculty of the North Ossetia Pedagogical Institute (now North Ossetian State University, university). There were 14 newspapers and magazines in Ossetian language published in North Ossetia in the 1930s, all of them since 1932 published poems by Khoziev. In 1936, having finished the pedagogical institute, Yakov Khoziev started his post-diploma studies at the North Ossetian Research Institute. He could not become a doctor of philology because of his sudden death on 9 July 1938: he drowned while swimming in the fast moving river Terek (river), Terek. He was 22 years old at that time. Some of his many poems are studied in the school course of Ossetian literature. His poetry is "generally about hope and achievement", as described by profess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kosta Khetagurov
Konstantin (Kosta) Khetagkaty ( Ossetian: Хетӕгкаты Леуаны фырт Къоста, – ) was a national poet of the Ossetian people who is generally regarded as the founder of Ossetian literature. He was also a talented painter and a notable public benefactor. He is often known by the Russian version of his name, Kosta evanovichKhetagurov (russian: Коста́ (Константин) Лева́нович Хетагу́ров) Khetagurov was born in the village of Nar in what is now Alagirsky District in the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania. He studied at the Stavropol Gymnasium from 1871 to 1881, and entered the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts in 1881, but had to abandon his studies due to financial constraint in 1885. Back in his native Ossetia, he became a prominent poet, whose poems composed in Ossetic quickly spread throughout Ossetian towns and villages in an oral form. He also published a number of poems, stories and articles in the Russian-language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
