Chechen
North Caucasus ethnicity
Chechen refers to a member of an ethnic group native to Chechnya, a republic in the North Caucasus region of Russia.
The Chechens have a distinct language and predominantly Muslim culture.
The word also describes anything relating to this people or their homeland: Chechen separatists, Chechen cuisine.
Two brutal wars between Chechen independence fighters and Russian forces in the 1990s and 2000s brought the region to international attention.
Related family groups
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- traditionsLong-established customs passed down
- customsTraditional practices or import taxes
- folkloreInherited cultural narratives
diaspora · identity · kinship · lineage · heritage · elders · hospitality · adat
Russian republic, Caucasus mountains
- RussiaEurasian federation, largest country
- GeorgiaName shared by country and state
- Caucasus MountainsRange between Black, Caspian
Freedom from external control
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
- refugeesPeople seeking safety elsewhere
- displacementRemoval from usual location
- guerrillaIrregular armed fighter
mujahideen · federal forces · separatism · autonomy · warfare · reconstruction · human rights · memorial
Slavic alphabet system
- Latin scriptWestern alphabetic writing system
- phonologyScience of language sounds
- consonantsLetters that aren't vowels
- dialectsRegional language variations
grammar · linguistics · agglutinative · oral literature · proverbs
clans
Related family groups
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- traditionsLong-established customs passed down
- customsTraditional practices or import taxes
folklore · diaspora · identity · kinship · lineage · heritage · elders · hospitality · adat · exile
Dagestan
Russian republic, Caucasus mountains
- RussiaEurasian federation, largest country
- GeorgiaName shared by country and state
- Caucasus MountainsRange between Black, Caspian
independence
Freedom from external control
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
- refugeesPeople seeking safety elsewhere
- displacementRemoval from usual location
guerrilla · mujahideen · federal forces · separatism · autonomy · warfare · reconstruction · human rights · memorial
Cyrillic
Slavic alphabet system
- Latin scriptWestern alphabetic writing system
- phonologyScience of language sounds
- consonantsLetters that aren't vowels
dialects · grammar · linguistics · agglutinative · oral literature · proverbs
- Eurasian LanguagesTurkish, Mongolian, Korean, Japanese, Kazakh
- Mountain LanguagesTibetan, Nepali, Quechua, Georgian, Kashmiri
- Caucasian LanguagesAndi, Georgian
- North CaucasusDagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Caucasus Mountains, highland clans, Caucasus
- CaucasusArmenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Dagestan, Caucasus Mountains
- Ethnoreligious GroupsDruze, Amish, Yazidi, Samaritan, Coptic
ChechenRussian
Eastern Slavic language
Georgian · Armenian · Azerbaijani · Slavic · Cossack
ChechenRussian
Eastern Slavic language
federalist · loyalist · Russian military · Moscow · Putin