Kazikumukh Shamkhalate
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| Capital | Kumukh | |||||||||
| Religion | Islam | |||||||||
| Government | Not specified | |||||||||
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| • | Established | 8th century | ||||||||
| • | Disestablished | 17th century | ||||||||
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"Gazikumukh Shamkhalate" is a term introduced in Russian historiography starting from the 1950s–60s to denote the Kumyk-Lak state that presumably existed on the territory of present-day Dagestan in the period of the 8th to 17th centuries. The capital of the Shamkhalate in the 8th century was Kumukh,In the 16th century sources given in the article, the capital is named as Tarki, and Kazi-Kumuk is stated as a residence, which contradicts the article and "1642" disintegration date named as Gazi-Kumukh in the 14th century.in the sources given in the article the name of the area (and possibly but not ambiguously town/city) is "Kazi[Gazi]-Kumuk or Kumukluk" and it's not stated as the capital anywhere In the 15th century other political centers of the shamkhalate were Bujnak, Tarki, Andirey and some other towns.
Among the supporters of Turkic version of the creation of the Shamkhalian state is Lak historian Ali Kayaev:
Shamkhal wasn't a descendant of Abbas Hamza but a Turk, who came with his companions. After him the Shamkhalate became a hereditary state.
Also it was supported by the historian Fahrettin Kirzioglu, the early 20th century historian D. H. Mamaev, Halim Gerey Sultan, Mehmet-Efendi, and others. Dagestanian historian R. Magomedov stated that:
there is all necessary proofs to relate the term to the Golden Horde, but not to the Arabs. We may think that in the period of the Mongol-Tatars they put a Kumyk ruler in that status [Shamkhal].
Russian professor of oriental studies, the Doctor of Historical Sciences I. Zaytsev, also shared the opinion that the Shamkhalate was a Kumyk state with the capital in the town of Kumuk (written thus in medieval sources). While studying works of the Timurid historians Nizam ad-Din Shami and Sheref ad-din Yezdi, Soviet historians V. Romaskevich and S. Volin, and Uzbek historian Ashraf Ahmedov, as well as professor in Alan studies O. Bubenok, call Gazi-Kumuk (also Gazi-Kumukluk in medieval sources) call the Shamkhalate area as the lands of Kumyks.
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