Karchag Explained

Official Name:Karchag
Native Name:Карчаг
КIварчагъ
Гъэрчогъ
Settlement Type:Village
Pushpin Map:Russia Dagestan#Russia
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Russia
Subdivision Type1:Region
Subdivision Name1:Republic of Dagestan
Subdivision Type2:County
Subdivision Type3:District
Subdivision Name3:Suleyman-Stalsky District
Subdivision Type4:Municipality
Population As Of:2010
Population Total:1,739 people[1]
Utc Offset1:+3:00
Postal Code:368773
Coordinates:41.7667°N 57°W[2]

Karchag (Russian: Карчаг; Lezghian: КIварчагъ;) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative centre of Karchagsky Selsoviet, Suleyman-Stalsky District, Republic of Dagestan, Russia.

Geography

Karchag is located on the Karchagsu River, southeast of Makhachkala[3] and north of Kasumkent (the district's administrative centre) by road. Ekendil is the nearest rural locality.[4]

History

At 2 km south of Karchag, in the town of Leger, stone tombs were discovered.[5] A bronze dagger with an openwork handle from the 12th-11th centuries BC was found in the opened graves.

The early explorer of the Caucasus S. M. Bronevsky (1763-1830), describing the population and military strength of the Tabasaran region, mentioned Karchag (Bronevsky wrote it down as “Kerchakh”) among the 8 main Tabasaran’s villages.[6] In the book “Review of Russian Possessions beyond the Caucasus,” published in 1836, Karchag is mentioned among the villages of the Dere and Kam mahallas of Lower Tabasaran.[7]

Karchag belonged to the Derlin mahallas of the Derbent province.[8] At the end of the 19th century, it belonged to the South Tabasaran naib.[9] After the formation of the Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Karchag and 3 other villages (Zizik, İmamqulukənd, Ekendil) administratively became part of the Zizik village council of the Kyurinsky district.[10]

Population and language

In the past, Karchag was a Lezgins - Mountain Jews settlement. A.K. Alikberov writes that: “its Iranian-speaking population, who professed Judaism, had long been assimilated by the predominant Lezgins population.”[11]

According to the “Caucasian Calendar” for 1857, Sunni Lezgins and Mountain Jews lived here, and the local languages were “Kyurinsky” (Lezgin) and Judeo-Tat.

The Mountain Jews of the Kyurinsky Khanate came from Karchag. Thus, the district physician of the Kyurinsky district, Alexei Tsvetkov, who studied the tukkhum of this district in the 1860s, wrote: “Kyurinsky’s Jews are settlers from Lezgins villages Karchag."[12] [13]

Based on a list of populated places in the Dagestan region compiled in 1888, the population of Karchag consisted of Muslims and Mountain Jews. The number of the first was 508 people (261 male and 247 women; 79 houses) and they were Sunni Lezgins. The Mountain Jews were 255 people (130 male and 125 women; 47 houses).

The “Caucasian Calendar” of 1910 says that in 1908, 868 people lived in the village, of whom there were mainly Lezgins.[14] Another “Caucasian calendar” of 1912 records that 901 inhabitants lived in the village, also mostly were Lezgins.[15] At that time, Karchag was part of the Kyurinsky district of the Dagestan region.

According to the results of the 1926 census, 724 people lived in Karchag (356 men and 368 women) and all were Lezgins.

Notes and References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20131224113210/http://dagstat.gks.ru/wps/wcm/connect/rosstat_ts/dagstat/resources/b698fa00421f084fbfb3ff2d59c15b71/ВПН+том1.rar All-Russian population census 2010. Table No. 11. Population of urban districts, municipal districts, urban and rural settlements, urban and rural settlements of the Republic of Dagestan.
  2. https://mapdata.ru/dagestan/suleyman-stalskiy-rayon/selo-karchag/ Село Карчаг на карте
  3. http://allroutes.ru/rasstoyanie_mahachkala_karchag Расстояние от Махачкалы до Карчага
  4. http://allroutes.ru/rasstoyanie_kasumkent_karchag Расстояние от Касумкента до Карчага
  5. Abakarov A.I., Davudov O.M. Archaeological map of Dagestan. Science, 1993. pp. 238-239.
  6. The latest geographical and historical news about the Caucasus, collected and updated by Semyon Bronevsky. Part II. M., 1823. p. 347.
  7. Review of Russian possessions beyond the Caucasus in statistical, ethnographic, topographical and financial terms. Part 4. 1836. p. 194.
  8. Caucasian calendar for 1857. Tiflis, 1856. p. 369.
  9. List of populated places in the Dagestan region. City of Petrovsk, 1888. p. 53.
  10. Materials of the 1926 All-Union Population Census in the Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Vol. 1. List of populated areas of the Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Makhachkala: Publishing house. Dagstatupravleniya ru: (Дагстатуправления), 1927. p. 102.
  11. Alikberov A.K. The era of classical Islam in the Caucasus: Abu Bakr ad-Darbandi and his Sufi encyclopedia “Raikhan al-haqa'iq” (XI - XII centuries). Eastern literature, 2003. p. 65.
  12. Laws of free societies of the 17th-19th centuries: Archival materials. Compiled, preface, note, Kh.M. Khashaev; editor G.A. Daniyalov. Makhachkala: Publishing House "Epoch", 2007. p. 61.
  13. Aliev B.G., Umakhanov M.S. K. Historical geography of Dagestan XVII beginning XIX century Book II. (Historical geography of Southern Dagestan). Makhachkala, 2001. p. 190.
  14. Caucasian calendar for 1910. Part 1. Tiflis. With. 279.
  15. Caucasian calendar for 1912. Statistical department. Tiflis. With. 166
  16. Memorial book of the Dagestan region Comp. E.I. Kozubsky. - Temir-Khan-Shura: “Russian type.” V.M. Sorokina, 1895. p. 724. section paragraph, 1 front page. (portrait), 17 l. ill., map; 25.
  17. Zoned Dagestan: (administrative and economic division of the DSSR according to the new zoning of 1929). — Makhachkala: Orgotd. Central Executive Committee of the DSSR, 1930. 56, XXIV, p. 114
  18. List of populated places indicating the population according to the 1939 census for the Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Makhachkala, 1940. p. 192
  19. Composition of populated areas of the Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic according to the All-Union Census of 1970 (statistical collection). Makhachkala: Dagestan Republican Department of Statistics of the State Statistics Committee of the RSFSR, 1971. p. 145
  20. National composition of the population of cities, towns, districts and rural settlements of the Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic according to the All-Union Censuses of 1970, 1979 and 1989 (statistical collection). Makhachkala: Dagestan Republican Department of Statistics of the State Statistics Committee of the RSFSR, 1990. p. 140
  21. http://std.gmcrosstata.ru/webapi/opendatabase?id=vpn2002 All-Russian population census 2002.

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