Itum-Kale
Sign in to saveItum-Kale (, , Iton-Qälla), also spelled as Itum-Kali () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Itum-Kalinsky District, the Chechen Republic, Russia. Population: In 1944 the area's Chechen inhabitants were deported on the order of Joseph Stalin and the area transferred to Georgia; this decision was reversed in the late 1950s and the Chechens who had survived were allowed to return.
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Key facts
- Russian inhabited locality.image_skyline
- File:ANCIENT_CITY.jpg
- Russian inhabited locality.image_caption
- A tower in Itum-Kale
- Russian inhabited locality.inhabloc_type
- Village
- Russian inhabited locality.en_name
- Itum-Kale
- Russian inhabited locality.ru_name
- Итум-Кале
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_district_jur
- Itum-Kalinsky district
- Russian inhabited locality.federal_subject
- Chechen Republic
- Russian inhabited locality.inhabloc_cat
- Rural locality
- Russian inhabited locality.pop_latest
- 1068
- Russian inhabited locality.pop_latest_date
- 2010
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Official name
- Итон-Кхаьлла
- Country
- Russia
- Population
- +438
- Elevation
- +717
- Capital of
- Itum-Kalinsky District
- Official website
- itum-kale.ru
- Image
- ANCIENT CITY.jpg
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Article
5 sectionsContents
- Events in the Second Chechen War
- People from Itum-Kale
- References
- Notes
- Sources
Itum-Kale (, , Iton-Qälla), also spelled as Itum-Kali () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Itum-Kalinsky District, the Chechen Republic, Russia. Population: In 1944 the area's Chechen inhabitants were deported on the order of Joseph Stalin and the area transferred to Georgia; this decision was reversed in the late 1950s and the Chechens who had survived were allowed to return.
==Events in the Second Chechen War== During the 1999-2000 siege of Grozny, and after its fall to Russian forces, large numbers of refugees headed toward Georgia through Itum-Kale. In November and December 1999, Russian forces bombarded refugees passing through the town, killing several.