Tskhinvali

[ skin-vuh-lee, tskin-; Russian tskhyeen-vuh-lyi ]

noun

1. a city in and the capital of the South Ossetian Autonomous Region, NW of Tbilisi.

Tskhinvali

/ ˈtskɪnˌvɑːlɪ /

noun

1. the Georgian name for South Ossetia

Example Sentences

He fought alongside Russian forces in the heaviest fighting of the brief war at Tskhinvali, forcing Georgian forces to retreat.

From The Daily Beast