Kaitags (Kaitag: хайдакьан, Kumyk: хайдакълар, Tabassaran: хайдакьланти, Lezgian: къайтагъар) are an ethnic group of the Dargins, but sometimes considered as a separate people. Their number are estimated to be over 25,000. They live mainly on the...
Kaitag (Kaitag: Хайдакьан кув [χɑjdɑqʼɑn kʰuβ]; also Kaidak, Karakaitak, Karkaidak, Qaidaqlan and Xajdak) is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken in Dagestan, Russia. It has sometimes been considered a divergent dialect of Dargwa due to it being...
Kaitag textiles are an unusual embroidered textile art form from the Kaytagsky District of southeast Dagestan, Russia, inhabited mainly by Dargins and Kumyks. Kaitag textiles are of simple construction, being laid and couched silk-floss embroidery...
The Kaitag Utsmiate, also known as the Qaytaq Utsmiate, was a multiethnic feudal political entity in the North Caucasus. The first mentions of it appear in chronicles from the 5th century, and it was eliminated in 1820 during the Russian conquest of...
Dargins or Dargwa (Dargwa: дарганти, romanized: darganti) are a Northeast Caucasian native ethnic group originating in the North Caucasus, and who make up the second largest ethnic group in the North Caucasian republic of Dagestan. They speak the...
The Battle of al-Qarakh was fought in 1033 at al-Qarakh city identified by the historian Vladimir Minorsky with modern Urkarakh in Dagestan, The battle followed after the defeat of the Sarir and Alans during their earlier campaign in the eastern...
Tabasarans (Lezgian: Табасаранар) are a Lezgin sub-ethnic group native predominantly to Tabasaransky district of Dagestan, partly on the plain and in cities (Dagestanskiye Ogni, Derbent, Makhachkala, etc.). Their population in Russia is about...
The Ainu (/ˈaɪnuː/) are an indigenous ethnic group who reside in northern Japan and southeastern Russia, including Hokkaido and the Tōhoku region of Honshu, as well as the land surrounding the Sea of Okhotsk, such as Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, the...
Kaitak, Kajtak, or Kaitag may refer to the following topics associated with a region in Dagestan, Russia:
The Dargin languages consist of a dialect continuum of over 60 Northeast Caucasian languages or dialects spoken by the Dargin people in southcentral Dagestan. Kajtak, Kubachi, Itsari, Mehweb and Chirag are often considered dialects of the same...
