Kistin Gorge (
Ingush: Кистий чӀож, romanized: Kistiy ch'ozh) or Armkhi Gorge (
Ingush: Ӏарамхий чӀож, romanized: 'Aramkhiy ch'ozh) is a gorge of the
Armkhi River in the
Dzheyrakhsky District of the
Republic of Ingushetia. The name of the gorge comes from the historical name of the river
Armkhi – Kistinka,[1][2] which in turn comes from one of the ethnonyms of the Ingush –
Kists.[2][3][4][5][6] Historically, the area where the gorge is located was called "
Kistetia". It is mentioned in medieval
Georgian sources, in particular, in the work of
Vakhushti Bagrationi.[7][8]
History
According to the legends, this road was controlled by the Tsurovs and the Yandievs. They "kept guard there and took tribute for the passage".[9]
In Russian documents, the name was first mentioned in the first half of the 19th century, in military reports from the period of the Caucasian War, for example, in the Report of the Commander-in-Chief of the Separate
Caucasian Corps, Field Marshal Paskevich-Erivansky, to the head of the main headquarters E.I.V. Adjutant General Chernyshev on the results of a military expedition to Mountainous Ingushetia under the command of Major General Abkhazov dated August 31, 1830.[10]
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Штелин, Я. Я. (1771).
Географическій мѣсяцословъ на 1772 годъ [Geographical menology for 1772] (in Russian). Санктпетербургъ: Императорская Академія наукъ. pp. 1–96.
Дахкильгов, И.А. (2010). Антология ингушского фольклора. Ингушские предания [Anthology of Ingush folklore. Ingush legends] (in Russian). Vol. 7. Нальчик: Эль-Фа. pp. 1–363.
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Картоев, М. М. (2020). Ингушетия в политике Российской империи на Кавказе. XIX век. Сборник документов и материалов [Ingushetia in the policy of the Russian Empire in the Caucasus. XIX century. Collection of documents and materials] (in Russian) (2 ed.). Ростов-на-Дону: Южный издательский дом. pp. 1–760.
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