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Tsentaroy, Kurchaloyevsky District, Chechen Republic
Akhmat-Yurt (; ), formerly known as Tsentaroy or Tsentoroy in Russian ( or ) and Khosi-Yurt in Chechen (), is a rural locality (a '' selo'') in Kurchaloyevsky District of the Chechen Republic, Russia. Administrative and municipal status Municipally, Akhmat-Yurt is incorporated as Akhmat-Yurtovskoye rural settlement. It is the administrative center of the municipality and the only settlement included in it. Geography Akhmat-Yurt is located on both banks of the Michik River. It is north-east of Kurchaloy and south-east of the city of Grozny. The nearest settlements to Akhmat-Yurt are Oyskhara and Verkhny Noyber in the north, Alleroy in the east, Gansolchu in the south, Dzhigurty in the south-west, Bachi-Yurt in the west, and Ilaskhan-Yurt in the north-west. History Foundation The founder of the settlement was Khosa Umakhanov, a member of the teip "Tontaroy", the same teip who founded the village of Oyskhara in the 18th century, according to writer A. P. Berzhye ...
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Chechen Republic
Chechnya, officially the Chechen Republic, is a republic of Russia. It is situated in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe, between the Caspian Sea and Black Sea. The republic forms a part of the North Caucasian Federal District, and shares land borders with Georgia to its south; with the Russian republics of Dagestan, Ingushetia, and North Ossetia–Alania to its east, north, and west; and with Stavropol Krai to its northwest. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Checheno-Ingush ASSR split into two parts: the Republic of Ingushetia and the Chechen Republic. The latter proclaimed the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, which declared independence, while the former sided with Russia. Following the First Chechen War of 1994–1996 with Russia, Chechnya gained '' de facto'' independence as the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, although ''de jure'' it remained a part of Russia. Russian federal control was restored in the Second Chechen War of 1999–2009, with Chech ...
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2010 Tsentoroy Attack
The 2010 Tsentoroy Attack was an insurgent operation carried out on the morning of 29 August 2010 by Chechnya, Chechen rebels in Akhmat-Yurt, Tsentoroy (also known as Khosi-Yurt), Chechnya, the home village and stronghold of pro-Moscow Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov. The assault - which represented the largest and most audacious attack launched in the republic for over a year - is considered to have "shattered" the image of Kadyrov's unshakeable rule in Chechnya, as it was the first time in six years that his seemingly impregnable village had come under attack. Attack According to the rebel website Kavkaz Center, three detachments totaling up to 60 militants (and featuring ten suicide bombers) led by Emirs Zaurbek, Makhran, and Abdurakhman - commanders directly subordinate to Aslambek Vadalov - entered the village around 4:30 a.m. local time. The rebels overran two checkpoints and destroyed an armored personnel carrier before setting fire to ten of the homes of Kadyrov’s c ...
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Dagestan
Dagestan ( ; ; ), officially the Republic of Dagestan, is a republic of Russia situated in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe, along the Caspian Sea. It is located north of the Greater Caucasus, and is a part of the North Caucasian Federal District. The republic is the southernmost tip of Russia, sharing land borders with the countries of Azerbaijan and Georgia to the south and southwest, the Russian republics of Chechnya and Kalmykia to the west and north, and with Stavropol Krai to the northwest. Makhachkala is the republic's capital and largest city; other major cities are Derbent, Kizlyar, Izberbash, Kaspiysk, and Buynaksk. Dagestan covers an area of , with a population of over 3.1 million, consisting of over 30 ethnic groups and 81 nationalities. With 14 official languages, and 12 ethnic groups each constituting more than 1% of its total population, the republic is one of Russia's most linguistically and ethnically diverse, and one of the most heteroge ...
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Levashinsky District
Levashinsky District (; Dargwa: Лавашала къатI; ) 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 center of the republic. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the rural locality (a '' selo'') of Levashi. As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 70,704, with the population of Levashi accounting for 14.2% of that number. Administrative and municipal status Within the framework of administrative divisions, Levashinsky District is one of the forty-one in the Republic of Dagestan. The district is divided into thirteen selsoviet A selsoviet (; , ; ) is the shortened name for Selsky soviet, i.e., rural council (; ; ). It has three closely related meanings: *The administration (''soviet (council), soviet'') of a certain rural area. *The territorial subdivision administered ...s which comprise sixty-seven rural localities ...
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Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
When the Soviet Union existed, different governments had ruled the northern Caucasus regions of Chechnya and Ingushetia. Within the Mountain Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic, later annexed into the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, they were known as the Chechen Autonomous Oblast and the Ingush Autonomous Oblast, which were unified on January 15, 1934, to form the Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Oblast. It was elevated to an autonomous republic as the Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic from 1936 to 1944 and again from 1957 to 1993. Its capital was Grozny. However, because of alleged collaboration with Nazi Germany and the Axis powers during World War II, the autonomous republic was abolished on 7 March 1944 resulting the ethnic cleansing of the Chechens and Ingush from its territory. The autonomous republic's status was restored in January 1957. The 1979 census reported the territory had an area of and a population of 611,405 Chechens, 134,744 I ...
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Imam Shamil
Imam Shamil (; ; ; ; ; 26 June 1797 – 4 February 1871) was the political, military, and spiritual leader of North Caucasian resistance to Imperial Russia in the 1800s, the third Imam of the Caucasian Imamate (1840–1859), and a Sunni Muslim sheikh of the Naqshbandi Sufis. Family and early life Imam Shamil was born in 1797 into an Avar Muslim family. He was born in the small village ( aul) of Gimry (present-day Dagestan, Russia). Some sources state that he had a paternal Kumyk lineage. He was originally named Ali, but following local tradition, his name was changed to ''Shamuyil'' (, equivalent to ''Samuel'') when he became ill. This name is pronounced ''Shamil'' in the Caucasus, and contemporary sources called him by this name (either or in Arabic), although in his writings he always used the form ''Shamuyil''. His father, Dengau, was a landlord, and this position allowed Shamil and his close friend Ghazi Muhammad to study many subjects, including Arabic and logic. ...
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Teip
A ''teip'' (also ''taip'', ''tayp'', ''teyp''; Chechen language, Chechen and Ingush language, Ingush: тайпа, romanized: ''taypa'' , ''family'', ''kin'', ''clan'', ''tribe''Нохчийн-Оьрсийн словарь (Chechen-Russian Dictionary, A.G. Matsiyev, Moscow, 1961), ''also available online:'Чеченско-Русский словарь: “схьаIенадала-такхадала”; ''and' ) is a Chechen and Ingush tribe, tribal organization or clan, self-identified through descent from a common ancestor or geographic location. It is a sub-unit of the tukkhum and Ingush societies, shahar. There are about 150 Chechen and 120 Ingush teips. Teips played an important role in the socioeconomic life of the Chechen and Ingush peoples before and during the Middle Ages, and continue to be an important cultural part to this day. Traditional rules and features Common teip rules and some features include:
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Ilaskhan-Yurt
Ilaskhan-Yurt (; , ''Ilsxan-Yurt'') is a rural locality (a '' selo'') in the Kurchaloyevsky District in the Chechen Republic, Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders .... Population: References Rural localities in Kurchaloyevsky District {{Chechnya-geo-stub ...
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Bachi-Yurt
Bachi-Yurt (, ''Bjaçi-Yurt'') is a rural locality (a '' selo'') in Kurchaloyevsky District, Chechnya. Administrative and municipal status Municipally, Bachi-Yurt is incorporated as Bachi-Yurtovskoye rural settlement. It is the administrative center of the municipality and the only settlement included in it. Geography Bachi-Yurt is located on both banks of the Gansol River. It is north-east of Kurchaloy and south-east of the city of Grozny. The nearest settlements to Bachi-Yurt are Melchki in the north, Oyskhara and Verkhny Noyber in the north-east, Akhmat-Yurt in the east, Dzhigurty in the south, Mayrtup in the south-west, and Ilaskhan-Yurt in the north-west. History In 1944, after the genocide and deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people and the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was abolished, the village of Bachi-Yurt was renamed to Pervomayskoye, and settled by people from the neighbouring republic of Dagestan. In 1957, when the Vaynakh people returned and the Chech ...
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Dzhigurty
Dzhigurty (, , ''Ƶuġurta'') is a village (selo) in Kurchaloyevsky District, Chechnya. Administrative and municipal status Municipally, Dzhigurty is incorporated as Dzhigurtinskoye rural settlement. It is the administrative center of the municipality and the only settlement included in it. Geography Dzhigurty is located on the right bank of the Gums River. It is south-east of the town of Kurchaloy and is south-east of the city of Grozny. The nearest settlements to Dzhigurty are Bachi-Yurt and Tsentaroy, Kurchaloyevsky District, Chechen Republic, Akhmat-Yurt in the north-east, Gansolchu in the south-east, Akhkinchu-Borzoy and Yalkhoy-Mokhk in the south, Khidi-Khutor in the south-west, and Mayrtup in the north-west. History The name Dzhigurty originates from the , translating roughly as "gravel meadow". Weapons such as daggers and blades were made in the village. Due to this, during the 18th and 19th centuries, Dzhigurty became a center for the production of such weapons ...
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