The medieval Sarmatian state of Alania, which…
1420 CE to 1431 CE
The medieval Sarmatian state of Alania, which had been established in the Middle Ages, had had its capital in Maas, which some authors locate in Arkhyz, the mountains currently inhabited by the Karachay.
In the late fourteenth century, whatever remained of Alania after the Mongol invasions of the thirteenth century had been destroyed by Timur and the decimated population had dispersed into the mountains.
Timur's incursion into the North Caucasus had introduced the local nations to Islam.
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