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Khwarshi

Khvarshi:Аᴴкьи́зо
Total population
c. 8,500 (highest est.)[1]
Regions with significant populations
Russia Dagestan	827 (2021 census)[2]
Languages
Khwarshi,Russian
Religion
Sunni Islam
Related ethnic groups
Bezhta,Hunzib and otherNortheast Caucasian peoples

TheKhwarshi people are aNorth Caucasian people living inDagestan, in several small settlements. The Khwarshi are originally from the southeastern part ofTsumadinsky District, where seven Khwarshi settlements are located:Upper- andLower Inkhokwari village (iqqo),Kwantlada village (kʼoλoqo),Santlada village (zoλuho),Khwarshi village (aλʼiqo),Khonokh (honoho) andKhwayni village (ečel).^[3] They do not have anethnonym for themselves as a united people, but instead they refer to themselves according to the settlement they are from. Thus they call themselves the Inkhokwari people (ixizo), the Kwantlada people (kʼoλozo), the Santlada people (zoλozo), the Khwarshi people (aλʼizo), the Khonokh people (honozo) and the Khwayni people (ečezo).

During August 1944, the Khwarshi were deported toVedeno andRityalb, but by 1957 30% of them had returned to the traditional settlements again, while the rest had emigrated to theKizilyurtovsky- andKhasavyurtovsky districts, meaning that today there is also Khwarshis to be found inKomsomolskoe andKizilyurt in Kizilyurtovsky, and inOktyabrskoe,Pervomayskoe andMutsalaul in Khasavyurtovsky. In fact, today the majority of Khwarshis, some 7,000, live outside the traditional settlements, while the remaining 1,500 live in the settlements.

They speakKhwarshi, aTsezic language. They are traditionallySunni Muslims, having converted around the 16th century due to the influence ofSufi missionaries.^[4][5][6] They live off by engaging inagriculture.

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• Indigenous peoples of the North Caucasus
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• Muslim communities of the Caucasus

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