Maghas
Sign in to savethumb|upright=1.3|250px|Political map of the Caucasus region in 1060 Maghas or Maas, more properly, Mags or Maks, was the capital city of Alania, a medieval kingdom in the Greater Caucasus. It is known from Islamic and Chinese sources, but its location is uncertain, with some authors favouring North Ossetia and others pointing to Arkhyz in modern-day Karachay–Cherkessia, where three 10th-century churches still stand.
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thumb|upright=1.3|250px|Political map of the Caucasus region in 1060 Maghas or Maas, more properly, Mags or Maks, was the capital city of Alania, a medieval kingdom in the Greater Caucasus. It is known from Islamic and Chinese sources, but its location is uncertain, with some authors favouring North Ossetia and others pointing to Arkhyz in modern-day Karachay–Cherkessia, where three 10th-century churches still stand.
Historian John Latham Sprinkle from the University of Ghent (Belgium) identified Maghas with an archeological site known as Il'ichevskoye Gorodische in Otradnensky District, Krasnodar Krai.
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