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Khamkhi

Khamkhi
Хамхи
Other transcription(s)
 • IngushХамхе
Location of Khamkhi
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Khamkhi is located in Russia
Khamkhi
Khamkhi
Location of Khamkhi
Khamkhi is located in Republic of Ingushetia
Khamkhi
Khamkhi
Khamkhi (Republic of Ingushetia)
Coordinates: 42°49′20″N 44°55′35″E / 42.82222°N 44.92639°E / 42.82222; 44.92639
CountryRussia
Federal subjectIngushetia
Elevation
1,230 m (4,040 ft)
Population
 • Total
0
 • Subordinated toDzheyrakhsky District
Time zoneUTC+3 (MSK Edit this on Wikidata[2])
Postal code(s)[3]
386430
OKTMO ID26620450161

Khamkhi (Ingush: Хамхе, romanized: Khamkhe)[5] is an ancient city-settlement in Dzheyrakhsky District of Ingushetia.[6][7] It is part of the rural settlement of Guli (administrative center rural settlement).[8]

On the territory of the city-settlement there is an architectural complex "Khamkhi", represented by many historical objects: megalithic cyclopean tower-type dwellings, 4 combat towers, 4 semi-combat and 16 residential towers, as well as 10 crypt burial grounds. Currently, these objects of Ingush architecture and the entire territory of the settlement are included in the Dzheyrakh-Assa Museum-Reserve and are under state protection.

Geography

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Khamkhi is located in Mountainous Ingushetia, on the left bank of the Assa river, on the territory of the historical region "Khyakhale" (from the Ingush "three-town"), being one of its three largest ancient cities-settlements.

History

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On the territory of Khamkhi, the remains of megalithic cyclopean dwellings dating back to the 2nd-1st millennium BC were recorded.[9] It is here that scientists localized the ancient ethnonym Khamekits, mentioned by the ancient historian and geographer Strabo (transcribing the words "Khamekits" and "Khamkheti" as the "Country of Khamkhs").[10][11][12]

In the late Middle Ages, Khamkhi was territorially part of the Khamkhin society as its center. The settlement is ancestral home for the following Ingush teips: Khamkhoevs, Izmailovs, Bekbuzarovs, Martazanovs, Katsievs, Adzhievs, Matsievs, Umarovs, Bersanovs, Fatkhilgovs, Kadievs.

In the second half of the 18th century (1770s), the German researcher J.A. Güldenstädt indicated Targim among the total number of Ingush villages and districts.[13] Khamkhi was mentioned as an Ingush village in 1823 by S. M. Bronevskiy [ru].[14]

References

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  1. ^ Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2011). Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1 [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года [2010 All-Russia Population Census] (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service.
  2. ^ "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). 3 June 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  3. ^ Почта России. Информационно-вычислительный центр ОАСУ РПО. (Russian Post). Поиск объектов почтовой связи (Postal Objects Search) (in Russian)
  4. ^ Итоги Всероссийской переписи населения 2020 года. Федеральная служба государственной статистики.
  5. ^ Мальсагов 1963, p. 149.
  6. ^ Чахкиев 2003, pp. 132–133.
  7. ^ Гадиев, Умалат. "Край башен и легенд — Горная Ингушетия". Archived from the original on 2016-11-08. Retrieved 2023-04-21. // «Discours»
  8. ^ "Закон Республики Ингушетия от 23 февраля 2009 года № 5-РЗ «Об установлении границ муниципальных образований Республики Ингушетия и наделении их статусом сельского поселения, муниципального района и городского округа»".
  9. ^ Чахкиев 2003, p. 103.
  10. ^ Виноградов & Чокаев 1966, p. 67.
  11. ^ Очерки истории Чечено-Ингушской АССР 1967, p. 25.
  12. ^ Крупнов 1971, p. 28.
  13. ^ Гюльденштедт 2002, p. 241.
  14. ^ Броневский 1823, p. 166.

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