Meredzhi

Meredzhi is the ancestral aul of the Merzhoy teip.

In the second half of the 18th century (1770s), the German researcher J. A. Güldenstädt indicated the village of Meredzhi among the total number of Kist villages which he opposes them with the Chechens.[7] Meredzhi was mentioned as an Ingush village in 1823 by S. M. Bronevskiy.[8]

In 1858, Naib of Little Chechnya Said-Dulla by order of Nikolay Yevdokimov made punitive raids on Shagot-Kokh, Dattykh, Azerze, Meredzhi and other villages, where many abreks were hiding.[9]

According to the Regulations on the management of the Terek Oblast in 1862, the Ingushskiy Okrug was established as part of the Western Department. It included societies of Nazranians, Karabulaks, Galgai, Kistins, Akkins and Tsorins[10] (also Meredzhin society and some Galanchozh and Yalkharoy auls).[11] The village of Meredzhi was part of the Gorsky section of the Ingush district.[11] In 1866 the Ingush-speaking Chechen village of Meredzhi (Meredzhi society, some Galanchozh, Yalkharoy auls and Akkin society) was ceded to the Argunskiy Okrug due to them belonging to the same nation as the locals (Chechen) and geographically closer to the central governance of the Okrug.[12]

National censuses done by the Russian empire and the Soviet Union in 1874, 1883, 1891, 1914 and 1926 showed that all of the inhabitants of Meredzhi and its surrounding villages were ethnic Chechens in all 5 censuses.[13][14][15][16][17]

Meredzhi is located on the right bank of the Fortanga river, on the Meredzhi river, at the foot of the Kyurelam mountain range. The nearest settlements: in the northwest (downstream of Fortanga) — the village of Dattykh, in the northeast (upstream of Fortanga) — the village of Gandalbos, in the west – the village of Tsecha-Akhki, in the east – the village of Khaykharoy.

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