Ossetia - 2008 South Ossetia War

On August 8, 2008, the 2008 South Ossetia war broke out, which involved Georgia, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, and Russia.

Read more about this topic:  Ossetia

Famous quotes containing the words south and/or war:

    “The Great South Beach of Long Island,... though wild and desolate, as it wants the bold bank,... possesses but half the grandeur of Cape Cod in my eyes, nor is the imagination contented with its southern aspect.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I realized how for all of us who came of age in the late sixties and early seventies the war was a defining experience. You went or you didn’t, but the fact of it and the decisions it forced us to make marked us for the rest of our lives, just as the depression and World War II had marked my parents.”
    —Linda Grant (b. 1949)