Archib (
Archi: ;
; ) is a village in Southern
Dagestan
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,
Russia
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near the
Azerbaijan
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i border. It is the central village of the
Archi people
The Archi people ( Archi: аршишттиб, ''arshishttib'', , ''archiyar'') are an ethnic group who live in eight villages in southern Dagestan, Russia. Archib is the 'parent village' of these, because three months a year the whole community u ...
, who speak
Archi.
It is a centre of
Archibsky selsoviet
A selsoviet (; , ; ) is the shortened name for Selsky soviet, i.e., rural council (; ; ). It has three closely related meanings:
*The administration (''soviet (council), soviet'') of a certain rural area.
*The territorial subdivision administered ...
in
Charodinsky District. The postal code is 368457.
References
External links
The Archi Language Page of the Surrey Morphology Group which includes a photograph of the village.
Rural localities in Charodinsky District
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