• 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    Lakia (section Shamkhals)
    of the ruler of Gazi-Kumukh. In 1642 the title shamkhal passed from Gazi-Kumukh to the branch of shamkhals in Tarki. Alibek II formed the Gazikumukh...
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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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