Shamkhal, or Shawhal (Kumyk: Şawhal) is a title used by Kumyk rulers in Dagestan and the Northeast Caucasus during the 8th–19th centuries. By the 16th...
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Shamkhal may refer to: Shamkhal (title), title of the rulers of Kumukh and Tarki in Dagestan Shamkhal, Russia, an urban-type settlement in the Republic...
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Shamkhalate of Tarki (redirect from Shamkhal of Tarki)
vassals from the Caspian Sea to Kabarda and Balkaria. The Shamkhals also possessed the title of the Vali of Dagestan and had their residence in the ancient...
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The fall of the Golden Horde in 1502 opened up prospects for the Kumyk Shamkhal rulers to expand their borders to the north. Soon, the rulers of the Tyumen...
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Kumykia (section Shamkhal possession)
Yarym-Shamkhal (or Kyrym-Shamkhal, Kumyk: Yarım-Şawhal, Qırım-Şawhal, meaning "Half/Side-Shamkhal"), with the center in the town of Boynak. This title was...
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Gazikumukh Shamkhalate (section Election of shamkhal)
wrote that the Arab version was elaborated by the Shamkhals themselves. Also, the title Shamkhals is not mentioned in the works of the Medieval Arabic...
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Chopan ibn Buday (category Shamkhals of Tarki)
ulanı, 1569–1588) was a Kumyk shamkhal (ruler) of Tarki from 1569 to 1588. He descended from the Kumyk dynasty of shamkhals and was the son of Alibek, according...
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Shamkhal himself, but the candidate always had to be from the local princes. According to Engelbert Kaempfer, the Shamkhal also possessed the title of...
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I, Shamkhal (16th century) Umal-Muhammad I, Shamkhal (1551) Budai I ibn Umal-Muhammad, Shamkhal (1566–1567) Surkhay I ibn Umal-Muhammad, Shamkhal (1567–1569)...
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