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Kumyks

Also known as Dagestan Turks

Kumyks (, ) 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
Ethnic group.related: Balkars, Karachays, Karapapakhs, Volga Tatars, Lipka Tatars, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Karakalpaks, Crimean Tatars, Siberian Tatars, Dobrujan Tatars, Chinese Tatars, Nogais, Bashkirs, North Caucasian peoples

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Encyclopedic overview

23 sections

Contents

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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kumyks” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.