Achmedkent

Village Achmedkent Ахмедкент Federal district North Caucasus republic Dagestan Rajon Kaitagski Height of the center 800  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 87238 Post Code 368590 License Plate 05 OKATO 82 223 810 001 Geographical location Coordinates 42 ° 8 ′  N , 47 ° 48 ′  E Coordinates: 42 ° 7 ′ 30 "  N , 47 ° 48 ′ 30"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Dagestan

Akhmedkent ( Russian Ахмедкент ) is a 800-meter-high village (selo) in Kaitagsky Rajon of the Russian Federation Republic of Dagestan in the eastern Caucasus .

geography

Achmedkent is located on a mountainside about two kilometers west of the Rajon administrative center of Majalis , which extends about 400 meters below in the valley of the Ullutschai . The local population mainly comes from the the Darginern related ethnic group of Kaitagen .

Akhmedkent is the seat of the rural community (Selskoje posselenije) Selsowet ( Dorfsovjet ) Akhmedkentsky, which also includes the smaller mountain villages of Iritschi, Tschachdikna and Surchatschi, which are up to eight kilometers as the crow flies to the northwest. The community has a total of 1703 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

history

The German botanist and scientist Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin (* 1744) died in Achmedkent as a hostage during ransom negotiations in 1774 at the age of 30 from the Ruhr. He was buried in Kajakent , 30 kilometers to the north , where a grave monument that has been preserved to this day was erected 100 years after his death. Up until the 19th century, Achmedkent was the residence of an important Kaitagic ("ckaitak") prince, after he had recognized Russian rule over the area in 1799 .

Since the second half of the 19th century, the village belonged to the Okrug Kaitago-Tabassaranski of the Dagestan Oblast of the Russian Empire, during the Soviet administrative reorganization in 1929 it came to the Kaitagski Rajon of the Dagestani ASSR .

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)
2. ↑ Helmut Dolezal:  Gmelin, Samuel. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 481 f. ( Digitized version ).
3. ↑ The last path of academician Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin in Dagestanskaja Prawda on May 22, 2008 (Russian; photo)
4. ^ Christian Gottfried Daniel Stein: Handbook of geography and statistics . 4th edition. tape 3 . Hinrichs, Leipzig 1820, p. 107 ( limited preview in Google Book search).