Ossetic Language. Encyclopædia Britannica. ციტატა: „Ossetic is the modern descendant of the language of the ancient Alani, a Sarmatian people, and the medieval As.“ ციტირების თარიღი: 16 May 2015
Caucasian Peoples. Encyclopædia Britannica. ციტატა: „A second ancient Indo-European group is the Ossetes, or Ossetians, in the central Greater Caucasus; they are a remnant of the eastern Iranian nomads who roamed the south Western Steppe from the 7th century bc until the 4th century ad (when they were dispelled by the Huns) and who were successively known as Scythians, Sarmatians, and Alans.“ ციტირების თარიღი: 16 May 2015
Alani. Encyclopædia Britannica. დაარქივებულია ორიგინალიდან — 4 ნოემბერი 2013. ციტატა: „The Alani who remained under the rule of the Huns are said to be ancestors of the modern Ossetes of the Caucasus. .“ ციტირების თარიღი: 14 მარტი 2020.
North Ossetia-Alania. Encyclopædia Britannica. ციტატა: „Ossetes are of mixed Iranian-Caucasian origin; their language belongs to the Iranian group of the Indo-European family of languages. From the 7th century bce to the 1st century ce Ossetia came under Scythian-Sarmatian influence, which was succeeded by that of the warlike Alani, who are believed to be the direct ancestors of the present-day Ossetes.“ ციტირების თარიღი: 16 May 2015
W. W. Rockhill: The journey of William of Rubruck to the eastern parts of the world, 1253-55, as narrated by himself, with two accounts of the earlier journey of John of Pian de Carpine. tr. from the Latin and ed., with an introductory notice, by William Woodville Rockhill (London: Hakluyt Society, 1900). Acc. to: http://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/texts/rubruck.html. Chaps. IX and XXII.
Alani. Encyclopædia Britannica. დაარქივებულია ორიგინალიდან — 4 ნოემბერი 2013. ციტატა: „The Alani who remained under the rule of the Huns are said to be ancestors of the modern Ossetes of the Caucasus. .“ ციტირების თარიღი: 14 მარტი 2020.
Bailey, Harold Walter. Alans.დაარქივებული 2012-01-21 საიტზე Wayback Machine. Encyclopædia Iranica Online Edition. Accessed on August 20, 2007.
