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ISSN 2223-165X

V.I. ABAEV NORTH-OSSETIAN INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITARIAN AND SOCIAL STUDIES

OF VLADIKAVKAZ SCIENCE CENTRE OF RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE

AND THE GOVERNMENT OF NORTH OSSETIA-ALANIA

ИЗВЕСТИЯ СОИГСИ

Asratyan D. K. «The Alan Dossier» of the Patriarch Nicholas the Mysticus: the Problems of Chronology // Izvestiya SOIGSI. 2015. Iss. 18 (57). P. 5-10. Print

Keywords: Christianity, history of the Church, North Caucasus, Alans, Middle Ages

The main sources of information on Christianization of Alans of the North Caucasus in the early of the 10th century are the letters оf Nicholas the Mysticus, the Patriarch of Constantinople, who firstly commissioned a group of missionaries to Alania, and then a first bishop for this country. The article attempts to clarify a dating of texts included in «The Alan dossier», and to reveal semantic and historical links between them, which would help to reconstruct in more detail the history of Christianization of Alania.