Alânia

== Portuguese == === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: A‧lâ‧ni‧a === Proper noun === Alânia f (historical) Alania (a medieval kingdom of the Alans (proto-Ossetians) in the Northern Caucasus, roughly in the location of the modern republics of Adygea, Chechnya, Ingushetia and North Ossetia-Alania in modern Russia, existing from the 9th to 13th centuries CE)