Tarskoye, formerly known as Angusht,; os, Тарскæй; inh, Ангуште/Онгуште. is a

rural locality In general, a rural area or a countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities. Typical rural areas have a low population density and small settlements. Agricultural areas and areas with forestry typically are describ ...

(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 Di ...

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 Central Asia. The word itself is of Turkic origin and simply means ''village'' in many Turkic languages. Auyl ( kk, Ауы� ...

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. The historical name of the village is ''Angusht'' ''(Angushtē)'', from which the ethnonym Ingush originates, and translates from the

Ingush language Ingush (; , , pronounced ) is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by about 500,000 people, known as the Ingush, across a region covering the Russian republics of Ingushetia and Chechnya. Classification Ingush and Chechen, together with Bats, ...

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 Vakhushti ( ka, ვახუშტი, tr) (1696–1757) was a Georgian royal prince ('' batonishvili''), geographer, historian and cartographer. His principal historical and geographic works, '' Description of the Kingdom of Georgia'' and the '' ...

Kartli Kartli ( ka, ქართლი ) is a historical region in central-to-eastern Georgia traversed by the river Mtkvari (Kura), on which Georgia's capital, Tbilisi, is situated. Known to the Classical authors as Iberia, Kartli played a crucial rol ...

who mentioned Angusht as a village located on the river Boragnis-tskali ( Sunzha). He also noted that the inhabitants of Angusht are Sunni Muslims. 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 The Sunzha ( rus, Су́нжа, p=ˈsunʐə, inh, Шолжа, Sholʒə, ce, Соьлжа, Sölƶa, p=sɥølʒə) is a river in North Ossetia, Ingushetia and Chechnya, Russia, a tributary of the Terek. It flows northeast inside the great nort ...

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 Cossack ...

began. The foundation of the ''Tarskaya

stanitsa A stanitsa ( rus, станица, p=stɐˈnʲitsə; uk, станиця, stanytsya) is a village inside a Cossack host ( uk, військо, viys’ko; russian: казачье войско, kazach’ye voysko, sometimes translated as "Cossack Ar ...

'' 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 (born 1938), writer, poet, and politician * Yunus-bek Yevkurov (born 1963), military officer and politician

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Bibliography

* * * * {{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