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Encyclopedia Britannica



KUMYKS

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 946 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: KRO-LAP
KUMYKS , a people of Turkish stock in Caucasia, occupying the Kumyk
plateau
  in north Daghestan and
south
 
Terek
 , and the lands bordering the Caspian. It is supposed that
Ptolemy
  knew them under the name of Kami and Kamaks. Various explorers see in them descendants of the Khazars. A. Vambery supposes that they settled in their present quarters during the flourishing period of the Khazar kingdom in the 8th century. It is certain that some Kabardians also settled later. The Russians built forts in their territory in 1559 and under Peter I. Having
long
  been more civilized than the surrounding Caucasian mountaineers, the Kumyks have always enjoyed some respect among them. The upper terraces of the Kumyk
plateau
 , which the Kumyks occupy, leaving its lower parts to the Nogai
Tatars
 , are very fertile. -


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