Tarskoye, formerly known as Angusht,; os, Тарскæй; inh, Ангуште/Онгуште. is a
rural locality (a
selo) in
Prigorodny District
Prigorodny District is the name of several administrative and municipal districts in Russia:
*Prigorodny District, Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, an administrative and municipal district of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania
*Prigorodny Dist ...
of the
Republic of North Ossetia–Alania
A republic () is a "state in which power rests with the people or their representatives; specifically a state without a monarchy" and also a "government, or system of government, of such a state." Previously, especially in the 17th and 18th c ...
, Russia. Population:
Nomenclature
The modern name ''Tarskoye'', is derived from the name of an eponymous
aul
An aul (; ce, oil; russian: аул) is a type of fortified village or town found throughout the Caucasus mountains and Soviet Central Asia, Central Asia.
The word itself is of Turkic origin and simply means ''village'' in many Turkic language ...
of
Tyarsh
Tyarsh or Tarsh ( inh, ТIаьрш, Thärsh), is an aul in the Dzheyrakhsky District of Ingushetia. It is part of the rural settlement of Olgeti (administrative center rural settlement). Tyarsh is the ancestral aul of Ingush teip Torshkhoy ( in ...
in plain
Ingushetia
Ingushetia (; russian: Ингуше́тия; inh, ГӀалгӏайче, Ghalghayče), officially the Republic of Ingushetia,; inh, Гӏалгӏай Мохк, Ghalghay Moxk is a republic of Russia located in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe. ...
. The historical name of the village is ''Angusht'' ''(Angushtē)'', from which the ethnonym
Ingush Ingush may refer to:
* Ingush language
* Ingush people
The Ingush (, inh, ГIалгIай, translit=Ghalghaj, pronounced ) per Oxford dictionary "a member of a people living mainly in Ingushetia in the central Caucasus." Ingushetia is a federa ...
originates, and translates from the
Ingush language as ''“a place from where the sky/horizon is observed”''.
[Кодзоев Н.Д. Ингушские населённые пункты: Ангушт / Реценз. к.и.н. А.Х. Матиева. — Назрань: «Кеп», 2020. / с. 4-5]
History
Angusht was built no later than the 17th century and the first report of it was made in 1745 by prince
Vakhushti of
Kartli who mentioned Angusht as a village located on the river Boragnis-tskali (
Sunzha
Sunzha (russian: Сунжа, Sunzha; inh, Шолжа-Пхье, Šolža-Pꜧe; is a town and the administrative center of the Sunzhensky District of the Republic of Ingushetia Russia. Before 2016 it was called Ordzhonikidzevskaya ( inh, Ордж ...
). He also noted that the inhabitants of Angusht are
Sunni Muslims
Sunni Islam () is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims. Its name comes from the word '' Sunnah'', referring to the tradition of Muhammad. The differences between Sunni and Shia Muslims arose from a disagr ...
. There is no exact data about the time of foundation of the village. It is known that Angusht was not originally a single village, but was a territorial society, consisting of several small tribal villages. In 1845, the settlement of the banks along the
Sunzha River by the
Terek Cossacks
The Terek Cossack Host (russian: Терское казачье войско, ''Terskoye kazach'ye voysko'') was a Cossack host created in 1577 from free Cossacks who resettled from the Volga to the Terek River. The local aboriginal Terek Cossacks ...
began. The foundation of the ''Tarskaya
stanitsa'' is associated with the emergence of the ''
Sunzha Line''. The stanitsa was built on the site of Ingush lands as fixated by
Nikolay Zeidlits in 1873, mentioned in his letter to the government published in the scientific journal ''«News of the Caucasian Department of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society»'' in 1894:
Notable people
*
Issa Kodzoev
Issa Ayupovich Kodzoev (russian: Исса́ Аю́пович Кодзо́ев; inh, Коазой Аюпа Ӏийса; born 12 August 1938) is an Ingush Ingush may refer to:
* Ingush language
* Ingush people
The Ingush (, inh, ГIалгIа ...
(born 1938), writer, poet, and politician
*
Yunus-bek Yevkurov (born 1963), military officer and politician
Notes
References
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* {{Cite book, last=Багратиони, first=Вахушти, author-link=Vakhushti Bagrationi, year=1904, url=https://dzurdzuki.com/download/vahushti-bagrationi-geografiya-gruzii-1904/, title=География Грузии, trans-title=Geography of Georgia, language=ru, translator-last=Джананашвили, translator-first=М. Г., translator-link=Mose Janashvili, location=Тифлис, publisher=Типография К.П. Козловского. Головинск. просп., № 12., pages=1–290
Rural localities in North Ossetia–Alania
History of Ingushetia