Kammala wannan jumla: Bayan rikice-rikicen soja a 1991-1992 da
2008, Georgia tana ɗaukar tsohuwar yankin mulkin mallaka na Ossetia ta Kudu a matsayin yankin da aka mamaye. Matsayinta ba shi da tsarin mulki da Georgia ta tsara, amma akwai Gudanarwar Gudanarwar Kudancin Ossetia da ke zaune a gudun hijira a Tbilisi. Yankin da ke ƙarƙashin ikon Georgia kafin Yaƙin Russo-Georgian na 2008, an tsara shi cikin birni huɗu, waɗanda ke riƙe da matsayin "de jure". Gwamnatin Ossetia ta Kudu ta raba yankin yankin zuwa gundumomi hudu ("raion").