Alani

(a-la'ni.) (Hist.) The name of several Asiatic tribes who, at the decline of the Roman empire, settled in the countries N. of the Euxine and the Caspian seas. Apart of them was conquered by the Huns, A. D. 375; and the rest, after invading France and Spain, were subjected by the Visigoths in abt. 407. [s. 16]