Submitted Name
SaveType Settlement
Usage Russian, English, Armenian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Swedish, Turkish, Uzbek
Scripts Владикавказ(Russian, Bulgarian, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian Cyrillic, Serbian, Uzbek Cyrillic) Վլադիկավկազ(Armenian)
Pronounced Pron. vlə-dyi-kuf-KAS(Russian) vlad-i-kahf-KAHZ(English) VLA-DEE-KAV-KAZ(French) [key·IPA]
[Meaning & History
Means "ruler of the Caucasus" from Russian владеть (vladet) meaning "to own, to possess, to control" combined with Кавказ (Kavkaz) meaning "Caucasus". This is the name of the capital city of the Russian republic of North Ossetia-Alania. The Ossetian name for the city is Dzaudzhyqau.