Archib (russian: Арчиб; av, Рочиб) is a village in Southern
Dagestan
Dagestan ( ; rus, Дагеста́н, , dəɡʲɪˈstan, links=yes), officially the Republic of Dagestan (russian: Респу́блика Дагеста́н, Respúblika Dagestán, links=no), is a republic of Russia situated in the North C ...
,
Russia near the
Azerbaijani border. It is the central village of the
Archi people
The Archi people ( Archi: аршишттиб, ''arshishttib'', lez, Арчияр, ''archiyar'') are an ethnic group who live in eight villages in Southern Dagestan, Russia. Archib is the 'parent village' of these, because three months a year the ...
, who speak
Archi.
It is a centre of Archibsky
selsoviet
Selsoviet ( be, сельсавет, r=sieĺsaviet, tr. ''sieĺsaviet''; rus, сельсовет, p=ˈsʲelʲsɐˈvʲɛt, r=selsovet; uk, сільрада, silrada) is a shortened name for a rural council and for the area governed by such a cou ...
in
Charodinsky District. The postal code is 368457.
External links
The Archi Language Page of the Surrey Morphology Group which includes a photograph of the village.
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Rural localities in Charodinsky District