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DOI: 10.46698/VNC.2024.93.54.018

FORTRESS COMPLEX IN KARTSUKH GORGE OF LENINGOR DISTRICT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH OSSETIA IN WRITTEN SOURCES AND IN SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE DESCRIPTIONS

Kaziev, Eduard V.
Izvestia SOIGSI. 2024. IIS 54 (93). P.5-15.
Abstract:
The purpose of this study is to provide as complete as possible a historical presentation of fortress
complex situated in Kartsukh gorge of Leningorsky district of the RSO. The materials for the study
were information from written sources about the complex in question, as well as its descriptions
in the scientific literature. The relevance of the work is determined by the need to analyze the
available information about the complex, which is contradictory in determining the chronology of
its construction. To resolve this issue, the study used the method proposed by R.G. Dzattiaty, which
consists consists of combining in dating towers with a flat rectangular façade and a rounded rear
the archaeological data on towers of this type with the written sources available on a particular such
monument. According to the accepted scientific opinion, the main tower of the complex, belonging
to the specified type of towers, was erected in the 6th-7th centuries. The use of the proposed method
made it possible to revise these dating, which constituted the scientific novelty of the study. The
study concluded that the beginning of the construction of the buildings of the complex that have
survived to this day should be attributed to the second half of the 13th century and associated with
the Kvenipneveli clan of the Ksani eristavis, who were of Ossetian origin. At the same time, the study
shares the opinion accepted in the scientific tradition that subsequent work on the reconstruction
of the complex was carried out in the period of the 15th-17th centuries. However, it points out the
need for additional argumentation of this opinion, which can only be obtained during a special field
study.
Keywords: Kartsukh/Karchokh fortress, towers with a flat facade and a rounded rear, chronology.
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For citation:: Kaziev, E.V. Fortress complex in the Kartsukh gorge of Leningor district of the Republic
of South Ossetia in written sources and scientific literature descriptions // Izvestiya SOIGSI. 2024.
Iss. 54 (93). Pp. 5-15. (in Russian). DOI 10.46698/VNC.2024.93.54.018
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