Digora
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Digora (; , Digoræ) is a town and the administrative center of Digorsky District of the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania, Russia, located on the Ursdon River (left tributary of the Terek), northwest of the republic's capital Vladikavkaz. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 10,856.
Key facts
- Russian inhabited locality.en_name
- Digora
- Russian inhabited locality.ru_name
- Дигора
- Russian inhabited locality.loc_name1
- Дигорæ
- Russian inhabited locality.loc_lang1
- Ossetic
- Russian inhabited locality.map_label_position
- right
- Russian inhabited locality.federal_subject
- Republic of North Ossetia-Alania
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_district_jur
- Digorsky District
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_selsoviet_jur
- Digora
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_selsoviet_type
- Town Under District Jurisdiction
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_ctr_of1
- Digorsky District
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_ctr_of2
- Digora Town Under District Jurisdiction
- Russian inhabited locality.inhabloc_cat
- Town
- Russian inhabited locality.mun_district_jur
- Digorsky Municipal District
- Russian inhabited locality.urban_settlement_jur
- Digorskoye Urban Settlement
- Russian inhabited locality.mun_admctr_of1
- Digorsky Municipal District
- Russian inhabited locality.mun_admctr_of2
- Digorskoye Urban Settlement
- Russian inhabited locality.pop_2010census
- 10856
- Russian inhabited locality.established_date
- 1852
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Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Digoria
- Official name
- Чырыстонхъæу
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Located in
- Digorsky District
- Population
- 10120
- Area
- 9
- Elevation
- 450
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Capital of
- Digorsky District
- Image
- Въезд в город Дигора.jpg
- Dialing code
- 86733
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- inception
- 1852-01-01
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Digora
- postal code
- 363410
- Commons category
- Digora
- native label
- Дигорæ
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- History
- Administrative and municipal status
- Notable people
- References
- Notes
- Sources
- External links
Digora (; , Digoræ) is a town and the administrative center of Digorsky District of the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania, Russia, located on the Ursdon River (left tributary of the Terek), northwest of the republic's capital Vladikavkaz. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 10,856.
==History== Founded in 1852 as the aul of Volno-Khristianovsky () and later renamed the selo of Novokhristianovskoye () and Khristianovskoye (), it was finally given its present name in 1934. It was granted town status in 1964.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Digora” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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