Kumyks
Sign in to saveKumyks (, ) are a Turkic ethnic group living in Dagestan, Chechnya and North Ossetia. They are the largest Turkic people in the North Caucasus.
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Kumyks are a Turkic ethnic group primarily living in the Russian regions of Dagestan, Chechnya, and North Ossetia. They are significant as the largest Turkic population in the North Caucasus, making them an important cultural and demographic group in that region.
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Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Kumyks
- Ethnic group.image
- center|235pxAbdul-Wahab son of Mustafa — a prominent Kumyk architect of the 19th century pictured wearing a traditional Caucasian papakha and chokha.
- Ethnic group.population
- 600,000
- Ethnic group.pop1
- 503,060 (2010)
- Ethnic group.pop2
- 1,700
- Ethnic group.pop3
- 1,200
- Ethnic group.pop4
- 718
- Ethnic group.langs
- Kumyk language
- Ethnic group.pop5
- 481
- Ethnic group.pop6
- 360
- Ethnic group.pop7
- 33
- Ethnic group.rels
- Sunni Islam
Article
23 sectionsContents
- Population and present settlement area
- Russian Federation
- Turkey and the Middle East
- Ethnonym
- Origin
- History
- Expansion of the Russian state, Ottoman Empire, and Persia
- Resistance to Peter I
- Caucasian War
- Genetics
- Colonization by Russia
- Dissolution of Shamkhalate and the Kumyk Okrug
- 1916 revolt, Russian Revolution, Soviet and modern times
- Demographics
- Ethnocide by Soviet Union
- Deportation
- Reasoning for ethnocide
- Language
- In Russian and European classical literature
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Kumyks (, ) are a Turkic ethnic group living in Dagestan, Chechnya and North Ossetia. They are the largest Turkic people in the North Caucasus.
They traditionally populate the Kumyk Plateau (northern Dagestan and northeastern Chechnya), lands bordering the Caspian Sea, areas in North Ossetia, Chechnya and along the banks of the Terek River. They speak the Kumyk language, which until the 1930s had been the lingua franca of the Northern Caucasus.