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Village Botlich Ботлих ( Russian ) Болъихъ ( Avar ) Federal district North Caucasus republic Dagestan Rajon Botlichski head Magomedrassul Osmanov population 12,159 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 900  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 87271 Post Code 368970-368971 License Plate 05 OKATO 82 209 820 001 Website www.s-botlikh.ru Geographical location Coordinates 42 ° 40 ′  N , 46 ° 13 ′  E Coordinates: 42 ° 40 ′ 0 ″  N , 46 ° 13 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Dagestan

List of large settlements in Russia

Botlich ( Russian Бо́тлих , Avar Болъихъ ) is a village (selo) in the Republic of Dagestan in Russia with 12,159 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is a good 100 km as the crow flies west-southwest of the republic capital Makhachkala at an altitude of almost 1000  m in the Greater Caucasus , whose peaks in the area reach a good 2600  m . Botlich is located above the left bank of the Andijskoje Koisu flowing in a deep ravine , the left source river of the Sulak , about 10 km from the border with Chechnya .

The village is the administrative center Rajons Botlichski and seat of the rural community selsowet (selskoje posselenije) Botlichski, and Tassuta (6 km north) are among the also the villages Aschino (km northwest 4).

history

The village, which has existed for centuries, gives its name to the messengers, who are mostly viewed as a sub-ethnic group of the Avars , as well as the botlichic language originally spoken by them , one of the Andean languages . Even today, Botlich and the municipality of Aschino, along with only three other villages, are the main rural settlement areas of the Botlich people, but only a few of them speak the language that has mostly been given up in favor of Avar.

After the surrounding area was connected to the Russian Empire in the course of the Caucasus War in 1858-1859 , Botlich became the administrative seat of an independent administrative unit for the first time on July 20, 1861, the Andijski okrug (Andean district) of the Dagestan Oblast established in the previous year , and also the seat of one of the subdivisions of the district, initially Technuzalskoje naibstwo , from 1899 Mechluzalski utschastok (section). From November 22, 1926, the village was the center of a canton named after him, then from June 3, 1929 a Rajon of the Dagestani ASSR . After various changes in area, the Rajon has existed within its present boundaries since January 12, 1965.

The attack on Dagestan in the Botlich area on August 7, 1999 by Chechen militants led by Shamil Basayev and Ibn al-Chattab began the Dagestan War , which became the cause of the Second Chechnya War .

Population development

year	Residents
1897	1,225
1939	1.924
1959	2,842
1970	3,421
1979	3,984
1989	5,739
2002	10,397
2010	12,159

Note: census data

traffic

To the north-east of the village runs the partly newly traced regional road 82K-008 (formerly R306), which , coming from Buinaksk via Chunsach , continues from Botlich over the 2177  m high Charami pass to the Chechen border and there in the direction of Shali  - Argun  - Grozny .

Web links

• Official website of the local government (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} 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)