SOUTH OSSETIAN – GEORGIAN RELATIONS CHRONICLE OF HISTORICAL EVENTS
In middle XVIII Ossetia (Alania) was an independent country - a confederation of self-governed states.
There existed two kingdoms on territory of current Georgia – the Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti and the Kingdom of Imereti, and three princedoms – Guria, Mingrelia and Svanetia. At different extents they depended of Turkey and Iran.
1774 - Voluntary entrance of the united Ossetia into the Russian State;
1782 - Erekle II, the king of Kartli-Kakheti, asked the Russian Empress Catherine II to accept his kingdom under the protection of the Russian Empire;