Alans

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Alans
The migrations of the Alans during the 4th5th centuries AD, from their homeland in the
North Caucasus. Major settlement areas are shown in yellow; Alan civilian emigration in
red, and; military campaigns in orange.
The Alans, or the Alani, occasionally
termed Alauni or Halani, were a
group of Sarmatian tribes of Iranian
origin, nomadic pastoralists of the 1st
millennium AD who spoke an Eastern
Iranian language which derived from
Scytho-Sarmatian and which in turn
evolved into modern Ossetian.
[1][2][3]
Name
The various forms of Alan Greek:
, ; Chinese:
Alanliao (Pinyin) in the 2nd century,
[4]
Alan (Pinyin) in the 3rd century
[5]
and Iron (a self-designation of
the Alans' modern Ossetian descendants, indicating early tribal self-designation) and later Alangoa ( )
[6]
are
Iranian dialectical forms of Aryan.
[7]
These and other variants of Aryan (such as Iran), were common
self-designations of the Indo-Iranians, the common ancestors of the Indo-Aryans and Iranian peoples to whom the
Alans belonged.
The Alans were also known over the course of their history by another group of related names including the
variations Asi, As, and Os (Romanian Iasi, Bulgarian Uzi, Hungarian Jsz, Russian Jasy, Georgian Osi). It is this
name that is the root of the modern Ossetian.
[8]
Early Alans
The first mentions of names that historians link with the "Alani" appear at almost the same time in Greco-Roman
geography and in the Chinese dynastic chronicles.
[9]
The Geography (XXIII, 11) of Strabo (64-63 BC through c. AD 24), who was born in Pontus on the Black Sea, but
was also working with Persian sources, to judge from the forms he gives to tribal names, mentions Aorsi that he links
with Siraces and claims that a Spadines, king of the Aorsi, could assemble two hundred thousand mounted archers in
the mid-1st century BC. But the "upper Aorsi" from whom they had split as fugitives, could send many more, for
they dominated the coastal region of the Caspian Sea: "and consequently they could import on camels the Indian and
Babylonian merchandise, receiving it in their turn from the Armenians and the Medes, and also, owing to their
wealth, could wear golden ornaments. Now the Aorsi live along the Tanas, but the Siraces live along the Achardes,
which flows from the Caucasus and empties into Lake Maeotis."
Chapter 123 of the Shiji (whose author, Sima Qian, died c. 90 BC) reports:
Yancai lies some 2,000 li [832 km]
[10]
northwest of Kangju. The people are nomads and their customs are
generally similar to those of the people of Kangju. The country has over 100,000 archer warriors, and borders
on a great shoreless lake.
[11]
The mouth of the Syr Darya or Jaxartes River, which emptied into the Aral Sea was approximately 850km
northwest of the oasis of Tashkent which was an important centre of the Kangju confederacy. This provides
remarkable confirmation of the account in the Shiji.
The Later Han Dynasty Chinese chronicle, the Hou Hanshu, 88 (covering the period 25220 and completed in the
5th century), mentioned a report that the steppe land Yancai was now known as Alanliao ( ):
Alans
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The kingdom of Yancai [literally "Vast Steppe"] has changed its name to the kingdom of Alanliao. They
occupy the country and the towns. It is a dependency of Kangju (the Chu, Talas, and middle Jaxartes basins).
The climate is mild. Wax trees, pines, and white grass [aconite] are plentiful. Their way of life and dress are
the same as those of Kangju.
[12]
The 3rd century Weile states:
Then there is the kingdom of Liu, the kingdom of Yan [to the north of Yancai], and the kingdom of Yancai
[between the Black and Caspian Seas], which is also called Alan. They all have the same way of life as those
of Kangju. To the west, they border Da Qin [Roman territory], to the southeast they border Kangju [the Chu,
Talas, and middle Jaxartes basins]. These kingdoms have large numbers of their famous sables. They raise
cattle and move about in search of water and fodder. They are close to a large shoreless lake. Previously they
were vassals of Kangju [the Chu, Talas, and middle Jaxartes basins]. Now they are no longer vassals.
[13]
By the beginning of the 1st century, the Alans had occupied lands in the northeast Azov Sea area, along the Don and
by the 2nd century had amalgamated or joined with the Yancai of the early Chinese records to extend their control
all the way along the trade routes from the Black Sea to the north of the Caspian and Aral seas. The written sources
suggest that from the end of the 1st century to the second half of the 4th century the Alans had supremacy over the
tribal union and created a powerful confederation of Sarmatian tribes.
From a Western point-of-view the Alans presented a serious problem for the Roman Empire, with incursions into
both the Danubian and the Caucasian provinces in the 2nd and 3rd centuries.
Main article: Massagetae
Ammianus Marcellinus considered the Alans to be the former Massagetae: "the Alani, who were formerly called the
Massagetae"
[14]
and stated "Nearly all the Alani are men of great stature and beauty; their hair is somewhat yellow,
their eyes are terribly fierce".
[15]
Archaeology
Europe, AD 117-138. The Alani at the time were concentrated north of the Caucasus
Mountains (centre right).
Archaeological finds support the
written sources. P. D. Rau (1927) first
identified late Sarmatian sites with the
historical Alans. Based on the
archaeological material, they were one
of the Iranian-speaking nomadic tribes
that began to enter the Sarmatian area
between the middle of the 1st and the
2nd centuries.
Western sources
Roman sources first mention the Alani
in the 1st century and later describe
them as a warlike people who
specialized in horse breeding. They
frequently raided the Parthian empire
and the Caucasian provinces of the
Roman Empire. In the Vologeses
inscription
[16]
one can read that
Vologeses I, the Parthian king c. AD 51-78, in the 11th year of his reign, battled Kuluk, king of the Alani.
Alans
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The contemporary Jewish historian, Josephus (37100) supplements this inscription. Josephus reports in the Jewish
Wars (book 7, ch. 8.4) how Alans (whom he calls a "Scythian" tribe) living near the Sea of Azov crossed the Iron
Gates for plunder (AD 72) and defeated the armies of Pacorus, king of Media, and Tiridates, King of Armenia, two
brothers of Vologeses I (for whom the above-mentioned inscription was made):
4. Now there was a nation of the Alans, which we have formerly mentioned somewhere as being Scythians,
and inhabiting at the Lake Meotis. This nation about this time laid a design of falling upon Media, and the
parts beyond it, in order to plunder them; with which intention they treated with the king of Hyrcania; for he
was master of that passage which king Alexander shut up with iron gates. This king gave them leave to come
through them; so they came in great multitudes, and fell upon the Medes unexpectedly, and plundered their
country, which they found full of people, and replenished with abundance of cattle, while nobody durst make
any resistance against them; for Pacorus, the king of the country, had fled away for fear into places where they
could not easily come at him, and had yielded up everything he had to them, and had only saved his wife and
his concubines from them, and that with difficulty also, after they had been made captives, by giving them a
hundred talents for their ransom. These Alans therefore plundered the country without opposition, and with
great ease, and proceeded as far as Armenia, laying all waste before them. Now, Tiridates was king of that
country, who met them and fought them but had luck to not have been taken alive in the battle; for a certain
man threw a net over him from a great distance and had soon drawn him to him, unless he had immediately cut
the cord with his sword and ran away and so, prevented it. So the Alans, being still more provoked by this
sight, laid waste the country, and drove a great multitude of the men, and a great quantity of the other prey
they had gotten out of both kingdoms, along with them, and then retreated back to their own country.
Flavius Arrianus marched against the Alani in the 2nd century and left a detailed report (Ektaxis kata Alanoon or
'War Against the Alans') that is a major source for studying Roman military tactics, but doesn't reveal much about his
enemy. In the late 4th century, Vegetius conflates Alans and Huns in his military treatise Hunnorum
Alannorumque natio, the "nation of Huns and Alans" and collocates Goths, Huns and Alans, exemplo Gothorum
et Alannorum Hunnorumque.
[17]
In Cathay and the Way Thither, 1866, Henry Yule writes:
The Alans were known to the Chinese by that name, in the ages immediately preceding and following
the Christian era, as dwelling near the Aral, in which original position they are believed to have been
closely akin to, if not identical with, the famous Massaget. Hereabouts also Ptolemy (vi, 14) appears to
place the Alani-Scyth, and Alanan Mountains. From about 40 B.C. the emigrations of the Alans seem
to have been directed westward to the Lower Don; here they are placed in the first century by Josephus
and by the Armenian writers; and hence they are found issuing in the third century to ravage the rich
provinces of Asia Minor. In 376 the deluge of the Huns on its westward course came upon the Alans and
overwhelmed them. Great numbers of Alans are found to have joined the conquerors on their further
progress, and large bodies of Alans afterwards swelled the waves of Goths, Vandals, and Sueves, that
rolled across the Western Empire. A portion of the Alans, however, after the Hun invasion retired into
the plains adjoining Caucasus, and into the lower valleys of that region, where they maintained the name
and nationality which the others speedily lost. Little is heard of these Caucasian Alans for many
centuries, except occasionally as mercenary soldiers of the Byzantine emperors or the [p. 316] Persian
kings. In the thirteenth century they made a stout resistance to the Mongol conquerors, and though
driven into the mountains they long continued their forays on the tracts subjected to the Tartar dynasty
that settled on the Wolga, so that the Mongols had to maintain posts with strong garrisons to keep them
in check. They were long redoutable both as warriors and as armourers, but by the end of the fourteenth
century they seem to have come thoroughly under the Tartar rule; for they fought on the side of
Toctamish Khan of Sarai against the great Timur.
[18]
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Migration to Gaul
Around 370, the Alans were overwhelmed by the Huns. They were divided into several groups, some of whom fled
westward. A portion of these western Alans joined the Vandals and the Sueves in their invasion of Roman Gaul.
Gregory of Tours mentions in his Liber historiae Francorum ("Book of Frankish History") that the Alan king
Respendial saved the day for the Vandals in an armed encounter with the Franks at the crossing of the Rhine on
December 31, 406). According to Gregory, another group of Alans, led by Goar, crossed the Rhine at the same time,
but immediately joined the Romans and settled in Gaul.
Under Biorgor (Biorgor rex Alanorum), they infested Gallia round about, till the reign of Petronius Maximus and
then they passed the Alps in winter, and came into Liguria, but were there beaten, and Biorgor slain, by Ricimer
commander of the Emperor's forces (year 464).
[19][20]
Under Goar, they allied with the Burgundians led by Gundaharius, with whom they installed the usurping Emperor
Jovinus. Under Goar's successor Sangiban, the Alans of Orlans played a critical role in repelling the invasion of
Attila the Hun at the Battle of Chlons. After the 5th century, however, the Alans of Gaul were subsumed in the
territorial struggles between the Franks and the Visigoths, and ceased to have an independent existence. In order to
quell unrest, Flavius Atius settled large numbers of Alans in various areas, such as in and around Armorica. Several
towns with names possibly related to 'Alan', such as Allainville, Yvelines, Alainville-en Beauce, Loiret, Allaines and
Allainville, Eure-et-Loir, and Les Allains, Eure, are taken as evidence that a contingent settled in Armorica,
Brittany.
[21]
Other areas of Alans settlement were notably around Orlans and Valentia.
[22]
Hispania and Africa
Kingdom of the Alans in Hispania (409426 AD).
Kingdom of the Vandals and Alans in north Africa
(526 AD).
Following the fortunes of the Vandals and Suevi into the Iberian
peninsula (Hispania, comprising modern Portugal and Spain) in
409, the Alans led by Respendial settled in the provinces of
Lusitania and Carthaginiensis: "Alani Lusitaniam et
Carthaginiensem provincias, et Wandali cognomine Silingi
Baeticam sortiuntur" (Hydatius). The Siling Vandals settled in
Baetica, the Suevi in coastal Gallaecia, and the Asding Vandals in
the rest of Gallaecia.
In 418 (or 426 according to some authors, cf. e.g. Castritius,
2007), the Alan king, Attaces, was killed in battle against the
Visigoths, and this branch of the Alans subsequently appealed to
the Asding Vandal king Gunderic to accept the Alan crown. The
separate ethnic identity of Respendial's Alans dissolved.
[23]
Although some of these Alans are thought to have remained in
Iberia, most went to North Africa with the Vandals in 429. Later
Vandal kings in North Africa styled themselves Rex Wandalorum
et Alanorum ("King of the Vandals and Alans").
There are some vestiges of the Alans in Portugal,
[24]
namely in
Alenquer (whose name may be Germanic for the Temple of the
Alans, from "Alan Kerk",
[25]
and whose castle may have been
established by them; the Alaunt is still represented in that city's
coat of arms), in the construction of the castles of Torres Vedras
and Almourol, and in the city walls of Lisbon, where vestiges of
their presence may be found under the foundations of the Church
of Santa Luzia.
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In the Iberian peninsula the Alans settled in Lusitania (cf. Alentejo) and the Cartaginense provinces. They became
known in retrospect for their massive hunting and fighting dog of Molosser type, the Alaunt, which they apparently
introduced to Europe. The breed is extinct, but its name is carried by a Spanish breed of dog still called Alano,
traditionally used in boar hunting and cattle herding. The Alano name, however, has historically been used for a
number of dog breeds in a few European countries thought to descend from the original dog of the Alans, such as the
German mastiff (Great Dane) and the French Dogue de Bordeaux, among others.
Alans in Europe
Coat of Arms of Alenquer (Alan-Kerk)
which includes an Alaunt.
Some historians argue that the arrival of the Huns on the European steppe
forced a portion of Alans previously living there to move northwest into the
land of Venedes, possibly merging with Western Balts there to become the
precursors of historic Slav nations.
[26]
It's believed that some Alans resettled to the North (Barsils), merging with
Volga Bulgars and Burtas, eventually transforming to Volga
Tatars.
[27]
Wikipedia:Verifiability
It is supposed that Iasi, a group of Alans have founded a town in NE of
Romania (about 12001300), called Iai near Prut river. Iai became the
capital of ancient Moldova in Middle Ages.
[28]
Medieval Alania
Map showing the location of Alans, c. 650. (small yellow area, near the middle of
the map)
Main article: Alania
Some of the other Alans remained under the
rule of the Huns. Those of the eastern
division, though dispersed about the steppes
until late medieval times, were forced by the
Mongols into the Caucasus, where they
remain as the Ossetians. Between the 9th
and 12th centuries, they formed a network
of tribal alliances that gradually evolved into
the Christian kingdom of Alania. Most
Alans submitted to the Mongol Empire in
12391277. They participated in Mongol
invasions of Europe and the Song Dynasty
in Southern China, and the Battle of
Kulikovo under Mamai of the Golden
Horde.
[29]
In 1253, the Franciscan monk William of
Rubruck reported numerous Europeans in
Central Asia. It is also known that 30,000 Alans formed the royal guard (Asud) of the Yuan court in Dadu (Beijing).
Marco Polo later reported their role in the Yuan Dynasty in his book Il Milione. It's said that those Alans contributed
to a modern Mongol clan, Asud. John of Montecorvino, archbishop of Dadu (Khanbaliq), reportedly converted many
Alans to Roman Catholic Christianity.
[30][31]
Alans
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Religion, language, and later history
Map of medieval Alania (10th12th century), according to Ossetian historian
Ruslan Suleymanovich Bzarov.
In the 4th5th centuries the Alans were at
least partially Christianized by Byzantine
missionaries of the Arian church. In the 13th
century, fresh invading Mongol hordes
pushed the eastern Alans further south into
the Caucasus, where they mixed with native
Caucasian groups and successively formed
three territorial entities each with different
developments. Around 1395 Timur's army
invaded Northern Caucasus and massacred
much of the Alanian population.
As the time went by, Digor in the west came
under Kabard and Islamic influence. It was
through the Kabardians (an East Circassian
tribe) that Islam was introduced into the
region in the 17th century. After 1767, all of
Alania came under Russian rule, which
strengthened Orthodox Christianity in that region considerably. Vast majority of today's Ossetians are followers of
traditional Ossetian religion.
The descendants of the Alans, who live in the autonomous republics of Russia and Georgia, speak the Ossetian
language which belongs to the Northeastern Iranian language group and is the only remnant of the Scytho-Sarmatian
dialect continuum, which once stretched over much of the Pontic steppe and Central Asia. Modern Ossetian has two
major dialects: Digor, spoken in the western part of North Ossetia; and Iron, spoken in the rest of Ossetia. A third
branch of Ossetian, Jassic (Jsz), was formerly spoken in Hungary. The literary language, based on the Iron dialect,
was fixed by the national poet, Kosta Khetagurov (18591906).
Notes
[1] Encyclopedia Iranica, "Alans" V. I. Abaev External link (http:/ / www. iranica. com/ newsite/ index. isc?Article=http:/ / www. iranica. com/
newsite/ articles/ unicode/ v1f8/ v1f8a013.html)
[2] Agust Alemany, Sources on the Alans: A Critical Compilation. Brill Academic Publishers, 2000 ISBN 90-04-11442-4
[3] For ethnogenesis, see Walter Pohl, "Conceptions of Ethnicity in Early Medieval Studies" Debating the Middle Ages: Issues and Readings, ed.
Lester K. Little and Barbara H. Rosenwein, (Blackwell), 1998, pp 1324) ( On-line text (http:/ / www. kroraina. com/ bulgar/ pohl_etnicihttp:/
/ en.wikipedia. org/ w/ index. php?title=Ethnic_group& action=editty. html)).
[4] The Hou Hanshu (http:/ / depts. washington.edu/ silkroad/ texts/ hhshu/ hou_han_shu. html)
[5] The Weile (http:/ / depts.washington.edu/ silkroad/ texts/ weilue/ weilue. html)
[6] [6] Kozin, S.A., Sokrovennoe skazanie, M.-L., 1941. p.83-4
[7] [7] Alemany p. 3
[8] Alemany pp. 57
[9] See Agust Alemany, Sources on the Alans Handbook of Oriental Studies, sect. 8, vol 5) (Leiden:Brill) 2000.
[10] The Chinese li of the Han period differs from the modern SI base unit of length; one li was equivalent to 415.8 metres.
[11] Perhaps what is known in the sources as the Northern Sea". The "Great Shoreless lake" probably referred to both the Aral and Caspian seas.
Source in Watson, Burton trans. 1993. Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian. Han Dynasty II. (Revised Edition), p. 234. Columbia
University Press. New York. ISBN 0-231-08166-9; ISBN 0-231-08167-7 (pbk.)
[12] Hill, John E. 2003. "Annotated Translation of the Chapter on the Western Regions according to the Hou Hanshu." Revised Edition to be
published soon.
[13] For an earlier version of this translation (http:/ / depts. washington. edu/ silkroad/ texts/ weilue/ weilue. html)
[14] [14] Ammianus Marcellinus, XXXI.2.12
[15] Ammianus Marcellinus, XXXI.2.21:Proceri autem Halani paene sunt omnes et pulchri, crinibus mediocriter flavis, oculorum temperata
torvitate terribiles et armorum levitate veloces.
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[16] Vologeses inscription. (http:/ / www.lostlanguages. com/ parthian. htm)
[17] Vegetius 3.26, noted in passing by T.D. Barnes, "The Date of Vegetius" Phoenix 33.3 (Autumn 1979, pp. 254257) p. 256. "The collocation
of these three barbarian races does not recur a generation later", Barnes notes, in presenting a case for a late 4th-century origin for Vegetius'
treatise.
[18] Giovanni de Marignolli, "John De' Marignolli and His Recollections of Eastern Travel", in Cathay and the Way Thither: Being a Collection
of Medieval Notices of China (http:/ / www.archive.org/ details/ cathayandwaythi00marigoog), Volume 2, ed. Henry Yule (London: The
Hakluyt Society, 1866), 316317.
[19] Isaac Newton, Observations on Daniel and The Apocalypse of St. John (1733).
[20] Paul the Deacon, Historia Romana, XV, 1.
[21] Bernard S. Bachrach, "The Origin of Armorican Chivalry" Technology and Culture 10.2 (April 1969), pp. 166171.
[22] Bernard S. Bachrach, "The Alans in Gaul", Traditio 23 (1967).
[23] For another rapid disintegration of an ethne in the Early Middle Ages, see Avars. (Pohl 1998:17f).
[24] Milhazes, Jos. Os antepassados caucasianos dos portugueses (http:/ / www. rtp. pt/ index. php?article=264957& visual=16& rss=0) Rdio
e Televiso de Portugal in Portuguese.
[25] [25] Ivo Xavier Fernndes. Topnimos e gentlicos, Volume 1, 1941, p. 144.
[26] Ioachimi Pastorii Florus Polonicus, seu Poloniae historiae epitome nova, Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden), 1641 (see in the Preface).
[27] (http:/ / kitap.net. ru/ bayar. php)
[28] [28] A. Boldur, Istoria Basarabiei, p. 20
[29] Handbuch Der Orientalistik By Agust Alemany, Denis Sinor, Bertold Spuler, Hartwig Altenmller, p. 400410
[30] [30] Roux, p.465
[31] Christian Europe and Mongol Asia: First Medieval Intercultural Contact Between East and West (http:/ / www. luc. edu/ publications/
medieval/ vol2/ guzman. html)
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