Chamaecoetae (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: χαμαικοῖται) were an ancient tribe mentioned by Greek geographer Strabo in his work Geographica during the first century AD. Some researchers connect them with the Ingush and localize them in mountainous Ingushetia, in Khamkhi, while others question these theories and argue that more arguments are needed.
The first and only mention of the tribe is in work of the Greek geographer Strabo, Geographica. He stated in his work as follows:
For the first time in 1963, expressed the point of view about the ethnicity of the Chamaecoeta in his work "Sarmatians of the North-Eastern Caucasus" (Сарматы Северо-восточного Кавказа), he associated the ethnonym with the Vainakh tribes. Further on, he and again wrote about the connection of this ethnonym with the Ingush and localizaed Chamaecoetae in Khamkhi:
first localized the Chamaecoetae in mountainous Chechnya, but later agreed with B. V. Vinogradov and K. Z. Chokaev about the location near the Ingush village of Khamkhi. However, there were scholars like the Caucasologist who questioned these theories and argued that: