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Map of Russia with Chechnya highlighted. This is a list of rural localities in Chechnya.Chechnya (/ ˈ tʃ ɛ tʃ n i ə /; Russian: Чечня́, romanized: Chechnyá, IPA: [tɕɪˈtɕnʲa]; Chechen: Нохчийчоь, Noxçiyçö), officially the Chechen Republic (/ ˈ tʃ ɛ tʃ ɪ n /; Russian: Чече́нская Респу́блика, romanized: Chechénskaya Respúblika, IPA ...
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Chechnya: Number: 15 districts 6 cities/towns 4 urban-type settlements 217 rural administrations 360 rural localities: Populations (Districts and cities only): 3,094 (Sharoysky District) – 297,137 : Areas (Districts and cities only): 11 sq mi (28 km 2) – 1,200 sq mi (3,000 km 2) (Shelkovskoy District) Government
Cities and towns in Chechnya (1 C, 6 P) P. ... Pages in category "Populated places in Chechnya" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
In September 2004, separatist rebels occupied a school in the town of Beslan, North Ossetia, demanding recognition of the independence of Chechnya and a Russian withdrawal. 1,100 people (including 777 children) were taken hostage. The attack lasted three days, resulting in the deaths of over 331 people, including 186 children.
The villages and towns named Chechan were always situated in the Chechan-are ("Chechen flatlands or plains") located in contemporary central Chechnya. [29] [30] The name "Chechens" is an exoethnonym that entered the Georgian and Western European ethnonymic tradition through the Russian language in the 18th century. [31]
The next month, Russian journalist Nadezhda Chaikova, who had filmed the effects of the 1996 attack, was killed execution-style in Chechnya. [ 15 ] A devastating artillery and rocket attack on Samashki took place in October 1999 at the beginning of the Second Chechen War , despite the demilitarization of the village, [ 16 ] killing or injuring ...
This is a list of the largest metropolitan areas in Spain by population. Infographic based on Corinne Land Cover 2018. IGN. Estimates are from the following sources: the "Functional Urban Areas" (FUAs) of the Study on Urban Functions of the European Spatial Planning Observation Network (ESPON, 2007) [1]