Capital city of Alans "Magas" INGUSHETIYA.
"Magas" Wich was the capital city of Alania, lied and still lie in Ingushetiya and is now also the capital city of Ingushetiya. wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingushetia 900 AD - 1200 AD the kingdom in the center of the Caucasus splits into Alania and Noble Alania (known from Russian as Царственные Аланы). German scientist Peter Simon Pallas believed that Ingush people (Kist) were the direct descendants from Alania.[27] 1300 AD - 1400 AD War between the Alans, Tamerlan, Tokhtamysh, and the Battle of the Terek River. The Alan tribes build fortresses, castles, and defense walls locking the mountains from the invaders. Part of the lowland tribes occupied by Mongols. The insurgency against Mongols begins. In 1991 the Jordanian historian Abdul-Ghani Khassan presented the photocopy from old Arabic scripts claiming that Alania was in Chechnya and Ingushetia, and the document from Alanian historian Azdin Vazzar (1395-1460) who claimed to be from Nokhcho tribe of Alania.[29][30] Second source from wikipedia: http://s155239215.onlinehome.us/turki... Scytho-Nakh theory Scytho-Nakh theory, or Alano-Nakh theory, stipulates that Nakhs constituted a main population segment of Caucasian Alania during its existance in 4th-13th cc., and the Nakhs people are descendents of the Middle Age Alania. During Early Middle Ages and Middle Ages, when existed the N.Caucasian Alania, its single largest constituent component remaining into the modern times could only be the Nakh people.