Alanya.
a city and district of Antalya Province, Turkey
Meaning & usage
a city and district of Antalya Province, Turkey
Where this word comes from
Reportedly a misspelling by Ataturk of the Romanization Alaiye of the name علائیه, so named after Sultan Alaeddin Kayqubad I.
a medieval kingdom of the Alans (proto-Ossetians) in the Northern Caucasus, roughly in the location of the modern republics of Adygea, Chechnya, Ingushetia and North Ossetia-Alania in modern Russia, existing from the 9th to 13th centuries CE.
North Ossetia-Alania: North Ossetia-Alania (a republic and federal subject of Russia, located in the Northern Caucasus mountains).
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Russian Алания (Alanija), from Latin Alānī, from Ancient Greek Ἀλανοί (Alanoí), from Proto-Sarmatian *Āllān.
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