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Kaitak, Kajtak, or Kaitag may refer to the following topics associated with a region in Dagestan, Russia: * Kaitag State, a historic principality * Kaytagsky District, the current administrative unit * Kaitags, an ethnic group * Kaitak language, of the Northeast Caucasian family * Kaitag dialect, of the Turkic Kumyk language * Kaitag dialect, of the Indo-European Judeo-Tat language * Kaitag textiles Kaitag textiles are an unusual embroidered textile art form from the Kaytagsky District of southeast Dagestan, Russia, inhabited mainly by Dargins and Kumyks. Kaitag textiles are of simple construction, being laid and couched silk-floss embroid ..., a form of embroidery See also * Kai Tak (other), several places in Hong Kong, including its former airport {{Disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaitag State
The Kaitag Utsmiate was a multiethnic feudal political entity in North Caucasus. The first mentions of it start appearing in chronicles from the 5th century, and it was eliminated in 1820 during Russian conquest of the Caucasus. The state's territories were spanning over Kaitag, Dakhaday and partially Segokala, Derbent, Kayakent districts of modern Dagestan. References * А. О. Муртазаев, Кайтаг в VIII - первой половине XIX в. (Исследование политической истории и роли в системе политических структур Северо-Восточного Кавказа). * С. К. Умаханов, Историческая география Дагестана XVII — нач. XIX в. History of Dagestan 1820 disestablishments in Asia 5th-century establishments ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaytagsky District
__NOTOC__ Kaytagsky District (russian: Кайта́гский райо́н; Dargwa: ; kum, Хайдакълы якъ, ''Xaydaqlı yaq'') is an administrativeLaw #16 and municipalLaw #6 district (raion), one of the forty-one in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia. It is located in the southeast of the republic. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the rural locality (a '' selo'') of Madzhalis. As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 31,368, with the population of Madzhalis accounting for 21.7% of that number. Administrative and municipal status Within the framework of administrative divisions, Kaytagsky District is one of the forty-one in the Republic of Dagestan. The district is divided into twelve selsoviets which comprise forty-five rural localities. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Kaytagsky Municipal District. Its twelve selsoviets are incorporated as sixteen rural settlements within the municipal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaitags
Kaitags (Kaitag: хайдакьан, , , ) are an ethnic group of the Dargins, but sometimes considered as a separate people. Their number are estimated to be over 25,000. They live mainly on the territory of the Kaytagsky district of Dagestan, partly on the plain and in cities (Makhachkala, Derbent, Izberbash, etc.). Part of the Kaitag people were resettled in Chechnya in 1944,According to family lists of the population of the Dagestan region in 1886 and population censuses in 1897 and 1926. from where they later moved to the north of Dagestan. They speak the Kaitag language of the Dargin branch of the Northeast Caucasian family, but the Dargin literary language and Russian are also common. They are mostly Sunni Muslims. Ethnogenesis The Kaitag people themselves did not preserve ancient legends about the origin of themselves. In pre-revolutionary and Soviet literature, there were theories about the Mongolian and Oghuz roots of the Kaitag people, held in particular by orien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaitak Language
Kaitag (self des. ''Хайдакьан кув'' ; oth. des. ''Kaidak'', ''Karakaitak'', ''Karkaidak'', ''Qaidaqlan'') is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken in Dagestan, Russia. It has sometimes been considered a divergent dialect of Dargwa due to it being part of the Dargin dialect continuum. The ''Routledge Ethnographic Handbook'' (2017) divided Kaitag into two dialects: northern (Magalis-Kaitak) and southern (Karakaitak). Recent results of the ''Association of the Russian Sociolinguists'' (2021) further developed it into three dialects: Lower Kaitag, Upper Kaitag and Shari. Dialects The languages consists of eight varieties, forming three dialects. Each of the Upper varieties corresponds to a historical province of the region. * Upper Kaitag – Хъар Хайдакь (south-west). ** Shurkkant – ''"The Cliff Dwellers"'' – Шурккант. **Qattagan – ''"The Gorge Dwellers"'' – Къаттагне. **Irchamul – ''"The Land of Nine"'' – Ирчӏамул. *Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kumyk Language
Kumyk (къумукъ тил,L. S. Levitskaya, "Kumyk language", in ''Languages of the world. Turkic languages'' (1997). (in Russian) qumuq til, قموق تيل) is a Turkic language spoken by about 426,212 people, mainly by the Kumyks, in the Dagestan, North Ossetia and Chechen republics of the Russian Federation. Until the 20th century Kumyk was the lingua-franca of the Northern Caucasus. Classification Kumyk language belongs to the Kipchak-Cuman subfamily of the Kipchak family of the Turkic languages. It's a descendant of the Cuman language, with likely influence from the Khazar language,Baskakov N.A. Введение в изучение тюркских языков. М., 1962, с. 236. and in addition contains words from the Bulghar and Oghuz substratum. The closest languages to Kumyk are Karachay-Balkar, Crimean Tatar, and Karaim languages. Nikolay Baskakov, based on a 12th century scripture named Codex Cumanicus, included modern Kumyk, Karachai-Balkar, Crimean T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judeo-Tat
Judeo-Tat or Juhuri (''cuhuri'', , ) is the traditional language of the Mountain Jews of the eastern Caucasus Mountains, especially Azerbaijan and Dagestan, now mainly spoken in Israel. The language is a dialect of Persian which belongs to the southwestern group of the Iranian division of the Indo-European languages, albeit with heavy Jewish influence. The Iranic Tat language is spoken by the Muslim Tats of Azerbaijan, a group to which the Mountain Jews were mistakenly considered to belong during the era of Soviet historiography though the languages probably originated in the same region of the Persian empire. The words ''Juvuri'' and ''Juvuro'' translate as "Jewish" and "Jews". Judeo-Tat has Semitic (Hebrew/Aramaic/Arabic) elements on all linguistic levels. Judeo-Tat has the Semitic sound “ ayin/ayn” (ع/ע), whereas no neighbouring languages have it. Judeo-Tat is an endangered language classified as "definitely endangered" by UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaitag Textiles
Kaitag textiles are an unusual embroidered textile art form from the Kaytagsky District of southeast Dagestan, Russia, inhabited mainly by Dargins and Kumyks. Kaitag textiles are of simple construction, being laid and couched silk-floss embroidery on a cotton ground. The designs are often in the style of classical Safavid Persian art, sometimes illustrating horsemen and hunting scenes. Abstract Kaitag designs have been compared to those of Matisse and Paul Klee Paul Klee (; 18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a Swiss-born German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented wi ..., though it is unlikely that either artist ever saw a Kaitag textile. Surviving examples are mostly from the 17th and 18th centuries. These embroideries were apparently made for local use in weddings, funerals, and for cradle trappings. References *Textile Gallery (London), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kai Tak (other)
Kai Tak Airport was the international airport of Hong Kong from 1925 until 1998. Kai Tak or Kai-tak may also refer to the following, all of which are located at the former site, or near the former airport: *Kai Tak Cruise Terminal, a cruise terminal in New Kowloon, Hong Kong *Kai Tak Development, an urban development plan for the Kai Tak old airport site *Kai Tak Nullah, nullah in northern New Kowloon, Hong Kong *Kai Tak station, Hong Kong railway station on the Tuen Ma Line of the Shatin-Central Link *Kai Tak Sports Park, sports stadium to be built at the site of the original Kai Tak Airport *Kai Tak Tunnel, tunnel in New Kowloon, Hong Kong *RAF Kai Tak, former Royal Air Force station in Hong Kong *Kai Tak (constituency), a former constituency in the Kowloon City District See also *Typhoon Kai-tak (other) The name Kai-tak has been used for four tropical cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean. The name was contributed by Hong Kong, and refers to that city's former airport. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
