Enikali
Enikali (Russian: Эникали, Chechen: Энакхаьлла,[1] Enaqälla) is a village (selo) in Kurchaloyevsky District, Chechnya.
Administrative and municipal status
[edit]Municipally, Enikali is incorporated as Enikalinskoye rural settlement. It is the administrative center of the municipality and is one of the two settlements, and the only inhabited one, included in it.[2]
Geography
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Enikali is located on the right bank of the Gums River. It is 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) south-east of the town of Kurchaloy and is 47 kilometres (29 mi) south-east of the city of Grozny.
The nearest settlements to Enikali are Achereshki in the north-west, Koren-Benoy in the north, Yalkhoy-Mokhk and Belty in the north-east, Khashki-Mokhk in the east, Gezinchu and Sherdy-Mokhk in the south-east, and Guni in the south-west.[3]
History
[edit]In 1944, after the genocide and deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people and the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was abolished, the village of Enikali was renamed to Bezhta, and settled by people from the village of Bezhta in the neighbouring republic of Dagestan.[4]
In 1958, after the Vaynakh people returned and the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was restored, the village regained its old Chechen name, Enikali.
Population
[edit]According to the 2010 Census, the majority of residents of Enikali were ethnic Chechens.
The teip composition of the village includes the Enakaloy, Tsontaroy and Ersenoy.
References
[edit]- ^ "Ярташ". "Даймохк" газет (in Russian).
- ^ "Сельское поселение Эникалинское (Чеченская Республика)". www.bankgorodov.com.
- ^ "Карта Чеченской республики подробная с районами, селами и городами. Схема и спутник онлайн". 1maps.ru.
- ^ "Потери вооруженных сил России и СССР в вооруженных конфликтах на Северном Кавказе (1920–2000 годы)". www.demoscope.ru.
- ^ Kashnitsky, Ilya (11 April 2017). "Municipality level Russian Census data 2002 and 2010". doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/CSKMU.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "ВПН-2010". www.gks.ru.