Kala Koreysh
Kala Koreysh
Кьара-Кьурейш | |
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| Кала-Корейш | |
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| Coordinates: 42°06′09″N 47°39′26″E / 42.10250°N 47.65722°E | |
| Country |  Russia |
| Republic | Dagestan |
| District | Dakhadayevsky |
Kala Koreysh (Template:Lang-ru, Dargwa: Кьара-Кьурейш) is an abandoned village in the Dakhadaevsky district of Dagestan. It served as the medieval capital of the Kaitag Utsmiate and was a large feudal estate.[1] The main attractions of the village are the mosque (founded in the 11th century)[2], the mausoleum of sheikhs and the caravanserai. With the development of lowland Dagestan in the 18th-19th centuries, Kala-Koreysh began to decline, and under Soviet rule in the 1940s, the last inhabitants were evicted from it. There is a cemetery that has become a place of pilgrimage, which also serves as the burial spots of the utsmis from the 12th to the 19th century, like Amir Hamza III.
Currently Kala-Koreysh is a labyrinth of mostly ruined buildings descending from the top of the mountain in terraces, but there is also a restored museum and a mauseloum of the Kaitag utsmis.
Name
The folk tradition ascribes Arab origin to the village, supposedly founded by Quraysh tribe. However, some researchers suggested that village may have existed before Arab presence in the region, with the name Dargwa: Урцlмуц/Уркlмуц (Transliteration: Urclmuc/Urklmuc).
Geography
The mountain on which the village is located is intercepted by two deep gorges, at the bottom of which the Bugan and another river flows. Both rivers merge in the east of the village, flowing to the river Ulluchay.
The mountain is bounded on all sides by sheer rock outcrops. Only from the western side the fortress is connected to the surrounding mountain system. This is the only direction in which people can enter the territory of the fortress. Behind the isthmus and around the fortress rises a picturesque system of mountains, covered with mixed forests.
Population
According to the Soviet Census of 1926, the Kaitag people made up 100% of the national population structure.[3]
| Year | 1895[4] | 1908[5] | 1926[3] | 1939[6] |
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| Population | 269 | 222 | 287 | 307 |
References
- ^ Lavrov 1966, p. 179.
- ^ "Factum Foundation : Recording the Mosque at Kala-Koreysh". www.factumfoundation.org. Retrieved 2022-12-09.
- ^ a b "Данные Всесоюзной переписи населения 1926 года" [Data from the All-Union Population Census of 1926] (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2021-09-24. Retrieved 2022-03-14.
- ^ Kozubskiy, E.I. "Памятная книжка Дагестанской области" [Commemorative book of the Dagestan region]. rusneb.ru - Национальная электронная библиотека. Темир-Хан-Шура: "Русская тип." В.М. Сорокина. Retrieved 2022-06-22.
- ^ Stratakov, V.V. "Кавказский календарь на 1910 г." [Caucasian calendar for 1910]. rusneb.ru - Национальная электронная библиотека. Тифлис: Т-во "Либерман и Ко". Retrieved 2022-07-04.
- ^ Список населённых мест с указанием численности населения по переписи 1939 года по Дагестанской АССР. Махачкала. 1940 [List of populated places indicating the population according to the 1939 census for the Dagestan ASSR].
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Sources
- Эпиграфические памятники Северного Кавказа на арабском, персидском и турецком языках. Ч.1. Надписи X - XII вв (PDF). 1966 [Epigraphic monuments of the North Caucasus in Arabic, Persian and Turkish. Part 1. Inscriptions X - XII centuries].
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