Kists

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Nakh peoples ethnic group

Kists are a small Nakh-speaking ethnic group living primarily in Georgia’s Pankisi Gorge, culturally and linguistically related to the Chechens of the North Caucasus.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Nakh peoples ⓘ
ethnic group ⓘ
citizenship Georgia ⓘ
continent Asia ⓘ
Europe ⓘ
countryOfResidence Georgia ⓘ
culturalPractice Vainakh customary law (adat) ⓘ
culturalRelation Chechens ⓘ
ethnicRelation Chechens ⓘ
Ingush ⓘ
ethnonym Kists self-link ⓘ
historicalOrigin Chechnya ⓘ
North Caucasus ⓘ
languageFamily Northeast Caucasian languages ⓘ
linguisticRelation Chechen language ⓘ
locatedIn South Caucasus ⓘ
locatedInAdministrativeEntity Akhmeta ⓘ
surface form: Akhmeta Municipality

Kakheti NERFINISHED ⓘ
migrationToGeorgia 19th century ⓘ
minorityStatus ethnic minority in Georgia ⓘ
nativeName ქისტები ⓘ
neighboringEthnicGroups Georgians ⓘ
Ossetians ⓘ
partOf Nakh peoples ⓘ
Peoples of the Caucasus ⓘ
primaryLanguage Chechen ⓘ
Kist dialect of Chechen ⓘ
regionOfResidence Pankisi Gorge ⓘ
relatedEthnicGroup Chechens ⓘ
Ingush ⓘ
religion Sufism ⓘ
surface form: Sufi Islam

Sunni Islam ⓘ
religiousMinorityStatus Muslim minority in predominantly Christian Georgia ⓘ
sharesCustomsWith Chechens ⓘ
Ingush ⓘ
spokenIn Pankisi Gorge ⓘ
traditionalEconomy agriculture ⓘ
animal husbandry ⓘ
traditionalReligion Naqshbandi ⓘ
surface form: Naqshbandi Sufism

Qadiriyya Sufi tradition ⓘ
surface form: Qadiri Sufism
traditionalSettlement Pankisi Gorge ⓘ
villages of Duisi ⓘ
villages of Jokolo ⓘ
villages of Omalo (Pankisi) ⓘ
usesScript Cyrillic script ⓘ
Georgian script ⓘ
Latin script ⓘ

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Kists → ethnonym → Kists self-link ⓘ