Magas (Ingushetia)
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Magas ( Ingush. And Russian Магас ) has been the capital of the autonomous Russian republic of Ingushetia in the North Caucasus since 2003 . With 2502 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010), the city is the smallest subject capital in the Russian Federation.
location
The city is located on the banks of the Terek -Zuflusses Sunzha four kilometers southeast of the biggest city of the Republic and its former capital Nazran . The border between the republics of Ingushetia and North Ossetia-Alania runs in the immediate vicinity of Magas . The trunk road R217 and a railway line of the North Caucasian Railway run north of Magas near and in Nazran.
history
The city of Magas, whose name literally means “city of sun” in the Ingush language , was built roughly on the site of a historical place that belonged to the medieval kingdom of Alania . The renaming in 1995 suggests an identity with the historical capital of this medieval kingdom, whose name is passed down from al-Masʿūdī as Maghas and was destroyed by the Golden Horde in 1239 . However, this equation has not been scientifically proven and there are two or three other sites that could correspond to the old Maghas without the question having yet to be scientifically clarified.
The reason for the re-establishment of the city as the new capital of Ingushetia instead of the previous seat of government Nazran was the fact that the latter had only fulfilled its functions as capital on a temporary basis: the autonomous republic of Ingushetia emerged from the Chechen- Ingush autonomous republic after the end of the Soviet Union Capital was Grozny . After the republic was split up, the new Ingush government decided to set up its seat in Nazran as the largest town in the republic. However, there were hardly any buildings there that would be suitable for this function, so that the authorities had to be housed in smaller administrative buildings, sometimes in schools or hotels.
For this reason, work began on building the new capital under the name Magas in the suburbs of Nazran in 1995. Five years later, the place received city status, and in December 2000 the law giving Magas the status of the Ingush capital was passed unanimously by the Russian State Duma . At the end of 2002, the government and the President of the Republic moved to the newly built government complex. At the 2002 census, the city had only 275 inhabitants.
In Magas there is an administrative building of the Russian secret service FSB . An attack was carried out on this in July 2007. The Russian authorities suspected the attackers in the neighboring village of Ali-Yurt , where 24 people were injured in a subsequent search operation.
Population development
| year | Residents |
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| 2002 | 275 |
| 2010 | 2502 |
Note: census data
Web links
- Magas on mojgorod.ru (Russian)
- Magas - the city of the sun (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ See Victor Shnirelman: The Politics of a Name: Between Consolidation and Separation in the Northern Caucasus. (PDF; 784 kB) in: Acta Slavica Iaponica 23 (2006) pp. 37–73, especially the chapter "Who might own the famous Maghas?", Pp. 48–53.
- ↑ The Russian North Caucasus is seething. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . August 21, 2007, accessed February 7, 2011 .
City districts : Karabulak | Magas | Malgobek | Nazran | Sunsha
Rajons : Dscheirachsky | Malgobekski | Nazranovsky | Sunschensky
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Karabulak S | Magas S | Malgobek S / R | Nasran S / R | Sunscha S / R |
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