Koki_(village)

Koki (village)

Koki (village)

Rural locality in Ingushetia

Koki[lower-alpha 1] (Russian: Коки, Ingush: Коки) is a medieval village (aul) in the Dzheyrakhsky District of Ingushetia. It is part of the rural settlement (administrative center) of Guli.[4] Koki is the ancestral village of Ingush clan (teip) Kokurkhoy (Ingush: Кокурхой).[5][lower-alpha 2]

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Geography

Koki (Коки) on a mid 19th century topographic map, located on the bank of the Assa and Guloykhi rivers.

The village is located on a forest clearing 1580 m above sea level on the slope of Mount Cherekhkort, on the left bank of the Guloykhi River, not far from the border with Georgia. The nearest settlements are: in the northeast — Vovnushki, in the south — Nelkh, in the northwest — Puy, in the valley of the Assa River.[6]

History

According to the family tree of the Kokurkhoy, they were also known as the sons of Ferta Shouli,[7] who were among the defenders of the "Ghalghai outposts" (Ingush: Ghalghai Koashke), historically also known as the "Durdzuk Gates" in the valley of the Assa River.[8] The tower complex of Koki was estimated to be built no later than the 17th century. It now consists of the ruins of a battle tower and six residential tower buildings, which in the past were united by means of a stone defensive wall into a single fortified complex. On the neighboring slope, across a mountain stream, there are the ruins of more structures, usually called "Upper Koki", which are easily visible from the Guloy-khi gorge.[9] Within the village there are 3 dilapidated above-ground collective crypt tombs of the late Middle Ages, situated on a mountain slope.[10]

In the autumn of 1910, the towers of the village of Koki were blown up by tsarist troops, for harboring abrek Zelimkhan. In 1911, the inhabitants of Koki (Kek) and the neighboring village of Nelkh (Nilkh) were deported to the Irkutsk and Yenisei provinces in Siberia. In 1913, the repressed were rehabilitated and allowed to return to their homeland, but it was not possible to restore the towers.[11][12]

Hydronymy

According to historian Makka Albogachieva, near the village Keï of the Tsorin society exists a mountain pack trail located by a small river called Kukurkhoy-khi.[13]

Notes

  1. Also referred to as 'Kokki', 'Kekki', or 'Kek'; according to one theory, may derive from the kinship with the ancient city-settlements of the 3 brothers — Qäqalĕ (Ingush: Кхаькхале)[3]
  2. Also spelled 'Kokkurkhoy', 'Kukurkhoy' (russianized: Kokurkhoev, Kukurkhoev)

    References

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      Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2011). Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1 [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года [2010 All-Russia Population Census] (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service.
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      "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). 3 June 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
    3. [3]
      Kilimatov 2018, pp. 16–18.
    4. [4]
      "Закон Республики Ингушетия от 23 февраля 2009 года № 5-РЗ «Об установлении границ муниципальных образований Республики Ингушетия и наделении их статусом сельского поселения, муниципального района и городского округа»".
    5. [5]
      Kilimatov 2018, p. 17.
    6. [6]
      Проект «Открытый Кавказ». "Карта" (in Russian).
    7. [7]
      Kilimatov 2018, p. 4.
    8. [8]
      Yakovlev 1925, pp. 102–103.
    9. [9]
      "Башенный комплекс Коки". Открытый Кавказ (in Russian).
    10. [10]
      Chakhkiev 2003, p. 61.
    11. [11]
      "О том, как ингуши пострадали от царских властей из-за отказа выдать абрека Зелимхана". grozny-inform.ru. 2 March 2018.
    12. [12]
      Газета «Русское слово», № 238, от 16 окт. 1910.
    13. [13]
      Albogachieva 1998, p. 291.

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