Georgian–Ossetian conflict (1918–1920)

The Georgian–Ossetian conflict of 1918–1920 were a series of uprisings, which took place in the Ossetian-inhabited areas of what is now South Ossetia, a breakaway republic in Georgia, against the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic and then the Menshevik-dominated Democratic Republic of Georgia which claimed several thousand lives and left painful memories among the Georgian and Ossetian communities of the region.

Georgian-Ossetian conflict (1918–1920)
Part of Russian Civil War
Date1918–1920
Location
South Ossetia, northeastern Georgia
Result Georgian victory
Belligerents
Ossetian insurgents
Supported by:
 Russian SFSR		 Georgia
Commanders and leaders
Valiko Jugheli
Casualties and losses
4,812–5,279 killed (according to South Ossetia)
20,000 displaced		 unknown
5,000 killed

During its brief tenure, the Menshevik government of Georgia came across significant problems with ethnic Ossetians who largely sympathized with the Bolsheviks and Soviet Russia. The reasons behind the conflict were complicated. An overdue land reform and agrarian disturbances in the poor Ossetian-populated areas intermingled with an ethnic discord and the struggle for power in the Caucasus.

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