Kedy (, ) is a

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(a '' selo'') in

Tsumadinsky District Tsumadinsky District (; ) is an administrativeLaw #16 and municipalLaw #6 district (raion), one of the forty-one in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia. It is located in the west of the republic. The area of the district is . Its administrative cent ...

of the

Republic of Dagestan Dagestan ( ; ; ), officially the Republic of Dagestan, is a republic of Russia situated in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe, along the Caspian Sea. It is located north of the Greater Caucasus, and is a part of the North Caucasian Fede ...

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, located in the mountains near the Chechen border. Kedy is also considered as a capital of Unqraq, the historic territory in Tsumadinskiy district which include 9 villages.

Geographic location

Kedy is situated on a valley among mountains. River flows at the center of the village.

Population

Avars (all of

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faith) live in the village and speak the

Avar language Avar (, , "language of the mountains" or , , "Avar language"), also known as Avaric, is a Northeast Caucasian languages, Northeast Caucasian language of the Avar–Andic languages, Avar–Andic subgroup that is spoken by Avars (Caucasus), Av ...

Migration

After involuntary resettlement to Vedeno (The Chechen Republic) in 1950th, part of population returned to the village and others left to different Dagestani villages. Now immigrants from Kedy live in

Makhachkala Makhachkala, previously known as Petrovskoye (1844–1857) and Port-Petrovsk (1857–1921), or by the local Kumyk language, Kumyk name of Anji, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Dagestan, Russia. ...

and generally in such villages as Shava (Babayurtovskiy district), Haji-Dada (Kumtorkalinskiy district), Kobi (Chechnya, Shelcovskoy district) and Aksay (Khasavyurtovskiy district).

Notable people

Makhach Murtazaliev Makhach Dalgatovich Murtazaliev (; born 4 June 1984) is a Russian Olympic wrestler who won the bronze medal for Russia at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens Athens ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, ...

— is an Avar born-

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who won the bronze medal for Russia at the

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.Olympic results
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References

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