History of Chechnya

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History of Chechnya
Prehistory
Kura–Araxes culture Maykop culture Kayakent culture Kharachoi culture Koban culture
Ancient
Durdzuks Cimmerians Alans
Medieval
Alania Simsim
Early modern
Ichkeria Caucasian Imamate Russian Empire
Modern
Mountain Republic 1917–1921 North Caucasian Emirate 1919–1920 Chechen National Okrug 1920–1922 Chechen Autonomous Oblast 1922–1934 Checheno-Ingush Aut. Oblast 1934–1936 Checheno-Ingush ASSR 1936–1944 Grozny Oblast 1944–1957 Checheno-Ingush ASSR 1957–1991 Chechen Republic of Ichkeria 1991–2000 Chechen Republic 2000–present
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The history of Chechnya may refer to the history of the Chechens, of their land Chechnya, or of the land of Ichkeria.

Chechen society has traditionally been organized around many autonomous local clans, called taips. The traditional Chechen saying goes that the members of Chechen society, like its taips, are (ideally) "free and equal like wolves".^[1][2]

Amjad Jaimoukha notes in his book The Chechens that sadly, "Vainakh history is perhaps the most poorly studied of the peoples of the North Caucasus. Much research effort was expended upon the Russo-Circassian war, most of it being falsified at that."^[3] There was once a library of Chechen history scripts, written in Chechen (and possibly some in Georgian) using Arabic and Georgian script; however, it was destroyed by Stalin and wiped from the record (see - 1944 Deportation; Aardakh).^{[citation needed]}