Kala Koreysh Explained

Kala Koreysh
Native Name:	Кьара-Кьурейш
Native Name Lang:	dar
Coordinates:	42.1025°N 47.6572°W
Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Type1:	Republic
Subdivision Type2:	District
Subdivision Name1:	Dagestan
Subdivision Name2:	Dakhadayevsky
Pushpin Mapsize:	200
Pushpin Map:	Russia Dagestan#Russia
Settlement Type:	Abandoned village

Kala Koreysh (Dargwa: Кьара-Кьурейш) is an abandoned village in the Dakhadaevsky district of Dagestan. It served as the medieval capital of the Kaitag Utsmiate and was a large feudal estate. The main attraction of the village are the mosque (founded in the 11th century).^[1]

Population

According to the Soviet Census of 1926, the Kaitag people made up 100% of the national population structure.^[2]

References

Web site: Factum Foundation : Recording the Mosque at Kala-Koreysh . 2022-12-09 . www.factumfoundation.org . en.
Web site: Данные Всесоюзной переписи населения 1926 года . https://web.archive.org/web/20210924110806/http://www.lingvarium.org/docs/dagestan-1926.zip . 2021-09-24 . 2022-03-14 . Data from the All-Union Population Census of 1926 . ru.
Web site: Памятная книжка Дагестанской области . Kozubskiy . rusneb.ru - Национальная электронная библиотека . Темир-Хан-Шура . "Русская тип." В.М. Сорокина . 2022-06-22 . E.I. . Commemorative book of the Dagestan region.
Web site: Кавказский календарь на 1910 г. . rusneb.ru - Национальная электронная библиотека . Тифлис . Т-во "Либерман и Ко" . 2022-07-04 . Stratakov . V.V. . Caucasian calendar for 1910.
Book: Список населённых мест с указанием численности населения по переписи 1939 года по Дагестанской АССР . List of populated places indicating the population according to the 1939 census for the Dagestan ASSR . Махачкала . 1940.

Sources

Book: . Эпиграфические памятники Северного Кавказа на арабском, персидском и турецком языках. Ч.1. Надписи X - XII вв . Epigraphic monuments of the North Caucasus in Arabic, Persian and Turkish. Part 1. Inscriptions X - XII centuries . Lavrov . 1966.