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Alani

[ uh-ley-nahy, uh-lah-nee ]

plural noun

  1. a nomadic Iranian people who flourished in the 2nd–4th centuries a.d. and are ancestors of the present-day Ossets.


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Example Sentences

His father was a Goth, and his mother of the nation of the Alani.

The women among the Alani gathered straight rods or wands, and used them in their superstition.

Herodotus mentions it as a custom of the Alani, and Tacitus of the old Germans.

And so at other times in actis and Verba m'ri Alani de Auriga.

But in the progress of time all these tribes came to be united under one generic appellation, and are called Alani.

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