Dorood(Hello) 

I am an Iranian girl, I have studied Ancient Languages and Cultures, I write the result of my studies: 

Alan is other from of Ar-an: Ar=Arian =Ar-Arian+an (the sign for making plural in Iranica languages). 

Ar is from the root of "vocalic r"which means "being in movement or departure" because all Arians were Nomads with big herds and later on the second meaning appeared as" free and not slave of somebody" because Arians were free people and last meaning also came as 

" Noble". 

"Alans" are the posterity of Sarmatians that are mentioned in "Shahnameh" of Great Ferdowsi" who composed 30000 versed in pure "Dari Persian" and explained all the mythologies and histories of Arians and Iranians before Arab invading. 

Sarmatians who were known as a branch of Skythians had close ancestral bonds with other Arian nations 

Skythians were occupying all northern parts of Persian Empire during Achaemenid Empire.They made a kingdom for 25 years in 600 BC in currunt Azerbaijan but they were put aside by Medians,Scythians had been powerful during history.The queen of Scythians killed Cyrus the Great in war.Scythians occupied India, Sistan(Sakistan)in south west of currunt Iran,currunt Tajikestan,Afghanistan, Turkamainstan,Uzbakistan,Ghazzaghistan,Ukraine,Hungaury,they occuped middle Asia to east Europe .A branch of Scythians were "Parthians" who expel "Greek dynasty after Alexander from Persia.Scythians language is still alive in "Soghdian language in Tajikistan, ,and in Ossetia or Alania in Iron language"It must have a great bong with old Khorassani and Sistani dialect because after Arabs invasion khorassani poets and genious people survived "Sassanian Pahlavi by making grammatical changes by "Parthian language" which can be known as an Skythian language"and changed it to "Farsi Dari" which is New Persian. 

Many ancient nations and languages disappeared in the world but Alanians are still glorifying as an ancient nation with an ancient language. 

Bedrood(bye) 

Hi Alan 

In fact the word Iron comes from the root: "Ir" as -on suffix are used to give identity to nations or people, such as Keshk-on (used for Kabardinians) and Makkal-on (used for Chechens). The other suffix used in Ossetians for the same purpose is -ag (like in the case “Urussag” for Russians). Historians say that "Ir" or "Ar" was a kind of common definiton for the people around the region which Scythians and Sarmatians lived. You may see a Sarmatian tribe named Aorsi for example. And Al-an or Al-on is the word derived from Ar-on. Today in Ossetia there is a river and a valley near to it: Ardon, which means water of “Ar”.  

The name “Ossetian” was given by other people lived around them. Most probably it was due to a tribe among Alans living close to them (may be Aorsi I mentioned above) then they called all of them Os at first, and it became Osethi. 

May be you are confused a little bit, let me make it more open: Scythians, and Sarmatians too, were a combination of tribes/clans that have the same root at first but have an independence to some degree. They were coming together for important meetings/decisions or for a common war call. It is understandable because they were living a pastoral way of life, moving from one grass to another for their cattles and sheeps. Historians mention that also some conquered people annexed to them time by time. None is sure for the name 'Scythian', but for 'Sarmatian' or 'Sauromada' again historians say it is not a name to describe a one single nation, as I explained above.  

First there were Scythians, then when they were weakened, their akins Sarmatians replaced them. Their language was so close that you may see this with the river and place names given by the Scythians, e.g. Don means "water" in modern Ossetian and Dniester = Don-i-astaer means "big water". No need to mention the river Donau. 

And Sarmatians had three main sub-groups: From East to the West, Alans, Roxolans and Jaszags (or Iasyges as Roman called them). Last two dissolved in the regions they lived, or moved to other Roman provinces like in the case of 5.500 Jaszag cavalrymen to the North Britain. This case is the inspiration of the Arthurian Legend theory proposed by Malcor&Littleton. Indeed the last movie on King Arthur is based on it. If you did not, with your permission I suggest you to read the excellent book: 'From Scythia to Camelot' written by those two. 

When we look back to Alans; half of them moved to the west with Huns as vassals when they were conquered by them. The other half established a kingdom in the Kuban&Caucasus regions, Alania, and survived there until crushed by the army of Tamerlane. The remnants escaped to the higher places, which means the mountains of modern day Ossetia. There they were called Osethi by Russians and Georgians. Legends tell that national folk hero 'Nana' cured most of the children carried in this hard journey, like in the case of Mother Teresa, and in fact they say most of them were women and children. In one source I read in the internet it is said that the number of those survivors were just about 16.000 people. Researchers found that most of the customs followed by modern day Ossetians are dated back to Scythian times. But may be the marriage restriction between members of the same clans is back to those times, who knows. 

Iron is not just the single name for Ossetians. There are also other sub-national tribes/their dialects: Digoron, Tuallag and Kudairag (note the suffixes used in the first two and the other two). Digoron dialect is accepted as the most ancient one, I mean closest to Alans. But there is no shortage for communication, they all understand each other very easily, although the official language is based on Iron dialect. If you wanna resolve the issue at 80 %, when Digorons use 'z' replace it with 'j' it becomes Iron :) Of course there are very few different words for objects, e.g. for a chair Digorons say “kaela” and Irons say 'bandon', for the latter it is understandable that it comed from the verb: 'badaen' means 'sitting'; or Digorons say 'minkie' for 'little' and Irons say 'geatzel'. If you wonder other two, I may say that Tuallag is close to Iron and Kudairag is exactly between Iron and Digoron. 

Following Ruslan, I may add more similar words: dentag (tooth), mad (mother), fid (father), rasht (right), aieg (egg), doua (two), ses (six), asht (eight, acht in german), daej: (ten, dix in french), kaenin (making), zaeghin (saying in Digoron dialect, sagen in german), astaer (big, 'store' in scandinavian languages), hoch (mountain, like high in english), houd (hoot), and more interestingly: either (same as either in english). These are from my very restricted Ossetian knowledge. For the last one Ruslan may help us to explain, as far as I know the word either is used exactly same as in English, but in Ossetian it has a meaning, because it is a derivation of “ei” and “there”, which means “this is too”. 

Regards

Alan, 

We pronounce the word "Iron" as is - [i:ron], and the word "Ossetian" as "Os-se-ti:-an" (not Os-sei-shian).  

By the way, there are at least 20-30 similar or closely related words in Ossetian and English / French languages: foot/ fad, shin, arm, gap, harm, ans, tu, door, name/nom, etc.  

From this point some relation between the English "iron" and the same Osseetian word doesn't look as a nonsense.  

As some historians say, our ancestors, Sarmats and Alans brought to Europe the traditions of equiping their wariors and horses in iron armour. Could the birth of the word "iron" be related to those who called themselves 'iron"? Who knows... 

ˮ񩧠ﳰ楠볨񯣠鸠 Ruslan Kuchity 30.1.2013 .

I understand that many Ossetians refer to themselves as "Iron". It is also my understanding that "Iron" is a cognate with "Iran", "Alan", and "Aryan". 

Anyway, so I may become more educated on this, how does one pronounce the word "Iron"? In English we have a word with the same spelling, which means a ferrous metal, but how about the word "Iron" when it refers to people of Ossetian or Alan extraction? 

Also, what is the proper way to pronounce "Ossetian"? I see the word written, but I don't know how to pronounce it properly. 

Thanks. 

Alan

Hola Vor-Thora, 

Thank you for offering a help. Unfortunately, we don't make money on this web site and therefore we can not hire tranaslators for presenting the articles in other European languages.  

With help of some people we already have couple of them published in Spanish, though. 

You can find them over here: 

http://ossetians.com/eng/index.php?showcat=jump&f=29 

I would greatly appreciate any help from you. You can choose for translation any of the materials published in English version of this web site except those two already translated in Spanish. 

Hi, I love your website! I'm emailing you in case there is any way in which this website can be translated (at least the articles) into Spanish (and here I offer you my help), because my Spanish husband, Enrique Osset is from Ossetian origin centuries ago, and he would love to read this page, as he is very interested in finding out more of his original ancestors. Unfortunately he doesn't speak English like I do. Would it be possible to translate it? If necessary, I offer my assistance in doing so. 

Thank you very much, 

Vor-Thora

Greetings There, 

I am conducting a linguistic researches in terms of Scythian language. I surfed the web and luckily I got to your website. 

I need a source of Ossetic words in Latin alphabet. I will be most grateful if you would write me the Ossetic counterparts of the following words: 

snow - mit 

wolf - birah 

dog - kuydz 

rain - khavda 

to eat - xaryn  

to want - fandy 

to sleep - fynaj kanyn 

dream - balits 

salt - tsax 

sheep - fys 

dry - xus 

cool - (cold) - uazal 

to turn - zdaxyn, zilyn 

Thanks in advance. 

ˮ񩧠ﳰ楠볨񯣠鸠 Ruslan Kuchity 21.7.2012 .

Xerxes67 

Thank you so much. 

I wish you the same. 

ˮ񩧠ﳰ楠볨񯣠鸠 Ruslan Kuchity 2.4.2012 .

Ruslan - I hope that all is well, best wishes, and hope it is a great and prosperous year in Ossetia...

Hi, I am IreneMilene from Miami, Fl., USA. To all Ossetians living in USA, please shout-out! The more of us - the power we are!  

im from belgium but there is a wierd ossitic problem whit my girlfriend she tells me none of her familie "accept her sister and mother" that i have a relationship whit her, than they going to tell her that she is a whore :/ i dont know that cuz i cant comunicate whit the mother that mutch cuz she speaks russian and ossitian but a little dutch, aswell if there stephfather comes there nieece and stephbrother i need to run upstairs and be sillenced :/ that is why i dont like the relationship :/ is this realy in ossetia that why? sorry for my late relpy thanks for helping  

have a nice day

God bless Ossetia!  

I live in Hungary, I am Jász. The Jász people are related to Ossetians!  

This website is very great job, I read so much. 

The Jász people of Hungary are love our Ossetian brothers! 

My interest for the Ossetian people and my dream: go to Ossetia and to discover this beautiful country, the old homeland of Jász people. 

Good luck, Ruslan! 

DarkPred! welcome to facebook group http://www.facebook.com/groups/51835169698/?id=10150336133789699#!/groups/globalosetyaalania/ we speak english and ossetic! someone will try to teach you )

Where are you from, Jason? 

The best program in your case is - asking your girlfriend to teach you to speak Ossetic :)

hello sorry but my ossetic is very bad and i cant find enny free courses my girlfriend is ossetic and i got some questions do you have msn? so we could reply fast? facebook is fine to, i know some words but its hard to speak ennyways Boeznig reply please .. 

Greets Jason

lets unite again ... ARSOYEV ... USA

i'm ossetian and armenian we lived together for over 2 thousand years lets unite again !!!!

Very interesting.  

I know there are several ethnic Ossetian families live in Montreal.  

Besides of that there is a scholar who visited Ossetia two times doing a research on historical and cultural issues.  

Please feel free to ask any question in case if you need help.

(answer to a post on 30.07.2011 , 03:02) 

Hello!  

My interest for the history of the Sarmatians  and Alans is a hobby for now, although I am considering expanding my passion for history.  

It all came about as the result of... curiosity. A month ago, I decided to discover  the "other side" of Herodotus' Histories. I explored different points of view on what many call ancient history. This path took me from the successive  Persian Empires to the Massagetae (source, Marcellinus) the Sarmatians, the Roxolani, the Iazyges, the Siraces,  the consequences of the 4th century and beyond... all the way to Alania and Ossetia-Alania. I became really, really  mad at the Huns and the Mongols as I read along and  I became really happy when I discovered the legacy of the Sarmatians and Alans... from Spain, France,  Ossetia-Alania to China.  

This is quite a journey through history and, yes, through the lives of the people who are a part of it. 

This is my view on "a beautiful legacy": finding our way through the many twists and turns of history - and life itself- remembering where we come from and being enthuastic about where we are going. This is why I am so impresed by the Sarmatians and Alans.  

Since I am currently working in an isolated area in the north of the province of Quebec  - I am working for the federal government -, I don't have access to a solid library. Thankfully, there are Internet sources I have been able to refer to. This website has been helpful. I will soon move back to a bigger city that harbours many libraries and four universities! At last, I will get a hold of BOOKS and on a solid Internet connection to continue my journey! Yippee!  

At the end of August 2001, I  was packing my bags to leave for Moscow, where I studied Russian (RGGU). At the time, I did not know about Ossetia-Alania. I was not really curious back then... If it would have been the case, I would had popped in to say hello! Well, no one knows what the future holds... 

Cheers!  

Julie  

P.S. I have kept a close watch on this text, but typos have probably crept in here... This iPhone keyboard is giving me quite a headache! 

Dear Julie, 

Thank you for the warm words.  

We are proud of our heritage indeed and we are trying to preserve it as much as possible. 

Is the history of Sarmats and Alans related to your job/school or it is just a hobby? 

Hello everybody!  

I discovered this website and project while doing a bit of informal research on the Sarmatians, Alani and Ossetians. I have been reading on and on way into the evening... and I am stunned by the incredible history of the Alani and their descendants. 

This is a beautiful heritage...  

This is a beautiful legacy, a legacy to be very proud of and to treasure! 

Life is full of surprises... I am very happy, because this may well be the beginning of a new adventure of knowledge and  discovery for me!  

Cheers!  

VanDame (Julie) 

Northern Quebec, Canada 

P.S. Sorry for the typos if any have made their way into this text. I only have an iPhone at my disposal and... its tiny and unfriendly keyboard is currently driving me bananas!  

AG, 

There is no such an Ossetian last name. But it sounds close to "Khoushata", which is the name of one of the oldest Ossetian clans.  

They settled in Zamankul, Khumallag, Zilga and some other Ossetian villages. If you could get some more information on your ancestry it would definitely help.

Thank you for responding...Ive been told the last name was "Kousha" before settling in Golan Heights. 

Dear friend, 

Kabardians, as well as Ossetians are not a tribe. They are a nation (or ethnic group) within the Russian Federation. Along with the Balkars they have their State, with government and all other institutions except the military forces.  

You can find out who your ancestors ethnically belong to, if you know what was their last name (clan name) before moving to Turkey or Syria. Without that nobody can give you a clear answer. 

But I think regardless if you are of Ossetian or Kabardian origin, you can be proud of your ancestry any ways. Both these nations have a great history, unique culture and amazing achievements.  

ˮ񩧠ﳰ楠볨񯣠鸠 Ruslan Kuchity 12.6.2011 .

The last name is "merza" Ive always have been told that I am ossetian..my parents and grandparents are from Syria. recently i have been told that i am not ..but really from the tribe kaberdey..I do not believe this and am desperate to look for answers.

EVERYONE WHO HAVE INTEREST IN OSSETIANS -PLEASE WELCOME TO FACEBOOK GROUP-"GLOBAL OSETYA ALANIA" !!!

Muito obrigado, josepinto103@gmail.com.

É lindo o lugar! Por isso que todos querem preservar! É a nossa vida ancestral que aí guardada em macula! Reliquia de todos os terrestes! Muita coisa a nos dizer e muitos ouvidos a escutar. Meus olhos já filmaram...falta mais!

I am very happy that I find this website by accident. I was looking for photos about my home land Ossetia and you can only imagine the pleasure I felt.thank you for your hardworking.I wanted to show them to my children as my late father did.For a lot of reasons I didn't learn our language but this is will not decrease my love for Ossetia.May allah bless you all and protect you.With my love from syria.

Attention! 

Those who bought the DNA test entering Family Tree DNA from this web site, please let me know about that.  

ˮ񩧠ﳰ楠볨񯣠鸠 Ruslan Kuchity 13.3.2011 .

Dear Alan 

About the origin of your name, and also some place/river names in Europe I suggest you to read Bernard Bachrach's "A History of the Alans in the West: From Their First Appearance in the Sources of Classical Antiquity through the Early Middle Ages".  

It contains lots of information on the movement of Alans in Europe, as they were separated from their kinsmen after the war with Huns. During this time Alans in Kuban region and Northern Caucasus were isolated and survived this incident (some historians say that they had an equal strength in the battle and participation was around 500.000 cavalry. That scene should have been an armageddon in 370 A.D.) Later these Alans remained in Caucasus became Ossetians, but that's another story. 

Both Bachrach and Malcor&Littleton (book: From Scythia to Camelot) suggest that Alans left traces in France, Switzerland, Italy, Germany and Spain which can still be visible with village, valley, river and people's names. It is not like a johnny-pony work, they present serious historical data and etymology for their theories. They also tell that Carolingian section of Franks were directly originated from Alans.  

As a short information; a very basic step on the way to top of the great pyramid: In English this Sarmatian tribe called "Alans" and a name "Alan" exists in Britain. In French they are "Alains" and there is a name "Alain" in France. Bachrach's book has very serious indications and he did not even need to use this small point.  

Actually we know that Sarmatians were sent to Britain by the Romans to defend Hadrian Wall (5.500 cavalry was not a small number in 175 A.D. You could invade a Roman imperial province with 10.000 cavalry at that time if you had good military skills) and they never came back.  

Malcor&Littleton's book is an extraordinary work for Sarmatian origin of King Arthur legend and their suggestions could not be ignored. (2004 King Arthur movie based on this story). If you read the book you will see that 1000 things came together for a single legend. It is interesting to see that existence of Vikings in North America was just based on couple of Norsemen nails and wood pieces. But objections to this theory tell that these indications are all coincidences and they are like waiting to see Arthur saying "yes, theories on the book is right".  

Can this explain the origin of some place names like "Croydon" in Britain? which means "mill water" in Ossetian. None knows at the moment. Because a deep analysis was not made for Britain like made for continental Europe in Bachrach's book, and these types of first step derivations could yield mistakes sometimes. 

Regards

First of all I would like to thank you Ruslan, for this great site and your continuous support for this project. You are doing a great job. Astaer Buzneag. 

I am an ethnic Ossetian in Turkey. For me, it seems that the situation over the region was not wholly reflected. It is true that Ossetians resisted less than the other people in Caucasus against the Russian invasion. (By the way it should be accepted that the Russian existence was an invasion, because none have invited Yermolov or Baryatinsky into the region, including Ossetians). 

Probably the most important factors behind this were the enormous pressure of the Russian imperial army through the Darial gates (it is extremely strategic on the region; and it was used to divide the resistance from both sides of Caucasus), situation of the mountains which prevented to get support from the surrounding areas and religious differences between the local tribes of Northern Caucasus (both gradual and sectional differences). 

And saying "Ossetia voluntarily joined Russian Empire in 1774" is not a completely right description for me. Otherwise, names like Koshty Bega, Khazby Allikkaty and Tomaity Makhamat should be deleted from the "folk heroes" section of the website, as they should have been malicious rebels who fought against the interests of their Ossetians fellows, if this expression fits. Moreover, they were not from the Digora region, whose residents were mostly Muslim, but further southern Ossetia.  

In addition, this expression rejects the existence of "Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus". Ossetia was among the founder members of this Confederation, its first capital was Vladikavkaz and only lasted for 3 years between 1917-1920. 

Anyway, history is history. I am not supporting any violence or any destructive politics. However, beyond all these concerns, there is a thick line between accepting the realistic politics and feeling the senses for the ancestors' souls. The latter contains other things than the first one. Because none could rise them from their graves and see their decisions at the moment. 

May be it is like a decision of Alan kings Goar and Respendial in Gaul at about the beginning of 5th century. Romans offered land and autonomy to Goar, and he resisted to move with his soldiers. However Respendial and his followers have chosen to join Vandals and Suevis. Fate of them? Both ways did not work. But who could say one king's path was wrong but the other's was right definitely. Everything should be explained within the specific time period passed. 

Culture is another thing and it still survives. Thanks to our brothers in Ossetia and Ossetians living in the other parts of the world. 

Regards

Ruslan, you asked a good question. And I am going to try to answer it honestly. 

Unlikely the other neighboring nations, Ossetia voluntarily joined Russian Empire in 1774 and since then never regretted about that.  

All small nations are under the influence of the big Empires any way. And instead of being "free" like Georgia, but on American payroll, we prefer to be part of Russia and consider it our country. Our parents and grand parents were many years fighting for this country and so do we. Your elders, by the way, too.  

Ossetians are free. More then those who think that they obtained independence and freedom in 1990-th. Because there is no absolute freedom. We all are small grits in this world. Nothing depends on us, and nobody asks us making important decisions. 

The nations of Africa were all colonized by big powers and the people were fighting for freedom and independence for hundreds of years. They finally got it and nowadays those nations are the poorest nations in the world. They have nothing to eat. So, do you think they are free today, fully depending on the international humanitarian aid? 

The real freedom is the freedom of our souls. If nothing and nobody controls your mind, you are free. Ossetians base their decisions on the Farn of our ancestors, the rules of honor and dignity. There are no political, religious or any other authorities who can control our mind. That's why we are free.  

Hello. I am from Azerbaijan. I have read about Ossetians some information. Also we know about Georgian-Ossetian conflict. I am not going to say who is right, who is wrong here. I am just interested in, do Ossetians in North also want to get free of russian empire. Lately, almost all Caucasians want to get rid of russians, just because russians inflicted too many troubles on caucasian people. What do Ossetians think about that?

One more comment. This evening I had a conversation with a Kurd who was originally from Iran. He told me there are a people in Iran today known as the Alani, or maybe it was a geographical region, I don't quite remember which.

svobodno11, 

I don't know if this will help, but the Missionary Training Center (MTC) in Provo, Utah, USA teaches about 50 languages. I don't know if they teach Ossetian, and it is not a place where you would normally go to study a language as a student because their purpose is to train missionaries. However, if anyone is likely to know about the teaching of a less commonly studied language in the US it would likely be people at the MTC. 

Perhaps you could contact them and they might know if there is any place in the US where you could study the Ossetian language. 

Let us know if you have any luck with your quest.

My first name is Alan. I have been told that the name derives from the ancient Alans or Alani, some of whom settled in France during Roman times. 

Because of the name I have become interested in the Alans and Ossetian culture, though I have to admit that I know only a very small part of the history and culture. 

I live in the US, and to the best of my knowledge my ancestors came primarily from the British Isles, Germany, and France.

God bless those who created this wonderful web site

Thank you Jastan! by the way-in Ossetia we have popular mail name Astan! im sure its the same as yours! p.s. in ossetian Kuord means certain group of people...

i love ossetia,,, jastan from kurdistan

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F+%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C&aq=f Ossetian puppet cartoon bazed on ossetian Nartian Legends

The History sect of this site is really informative. A lot more things make sense to me about the caucasus people now. I always thought that the people from the caucasus mountain region includng the Ossetians were made up of the tribes that took down the roman empire which lead to the dark ages. But this showed me otherwise. Still doing my research though

Hello,  

I heard about this site from a friend of mine (a girl who I think is Ossetian). I am a history student and loved reading over the website. It's fascinating to learn about your culture and to know that it is not yet lost.  

However i would love to see more photos on the site, perhaps modern day living. 

Thanks so much! 

keep up the great job

I found your recipes interesting and the lists of brothers killed in the Great Patriotic War very moving. 

thaks-you.

I am an iron and living in TURKEY.My grangfather imigrated from OSSETIA ( as I learned from ZAMARAG region) to TURKEY in about 1905. My grandfather's name is LADI KAYTMAZOV. 

My family (named as KAYTMAZATE in Turkey) originated from Osbagatır grand family. 

How can I learn some information about may family? 

Best regards 

Celal AYHAN 

ayhancelal@gmail.com 

name@url.de name@url.de

We're currently looking for an Ossetian translator to translate a small document... 

Please get in touch on translation@dalanguages.co.uk 

Thanks

I am living in Turkey and looking for my descendants ( family) living in Ossetia.Could you please write iron families living in Osetia .  

Dear Turkish Brother/Sister, 

There are thousands of clans (myggagta) with different family names live in Ossetia. To find your relatieves you need to know at least what is your Ossetian ancestral family name (last name). It would also help if you find out from which village in Ossetia your ancestors where originated. 

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ˮ񩧠ﳰ楠볨񯣠鸠 Ruslan Kuchity 1.7.2010 .

Hello. I just discovered your website. It is very interesting, there is a lot of information and it is well written. We have no info about your country in Europe and a lot of disinformation or misinformation ! Good luck.

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Bravo Maestro! 

Bravo Ossetian! 

Its so good to be here...Im sending my warm thoughts... More than 2 years ago I was working in Tskhinvali... as a civilian with engineers.Iwas working with Karl S. engineer from Germany. 

I met in South Ossetia a lot of fantastic people, Wioletta, Zera, Maka, Taimuraz, Wowa... I miss You all!  

If anyone of You is here... please contact me ... carolinascotties@yahoo.com 

My bigest dream is to come back there...