The Mamilovs; inh, Мамилгнаькъан, Mamilnäqhan are an

Ingush Ingush may refer to: * Ingush language * Ingush people The Ingush (, inh, ГIалгIай, translit=Ghalghaj, pronounced ) per Oxford dictionary "a member of a people living mainly in Ingushetia in the central Caucasus." Ingushetia is a federa ...

tribal organization/clan ('' teip''). The clan comprises about 1,500 people. It is one of a few Ingush clans whose members share one name. They come from the village of Erzi

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, which has been, since 2000, a part of the State Nature Reserve "Erzi". At this time, they live mostly in Malgobeksky District and Dzheyrakhsky District of Ingushetia.

History

Early History

The Ingush local historian and ethnographer

Chakh Akhriev Chakh Elmurzievich Akhriev ( inh, Оахаранаькъан Элмарзий ЧхьагӀа, russian: Чах Эльмурзиевич Ахриев) was the first Ingush ethnographer and also a lawyer by education. Chakh dedicated his scholarly ...

described the origins of the clan as follows:

Kist – the son of a famous
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the owner of the house Kamen (Comnenus), during the first Crusades moved from
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and
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, and hence, after a while, went to the Georgia. But Georgia was at that time in the sad state of constant attacks Arabs and
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, so that Kist was forced to run away from here into impregnable Caucasus Mountains and lived in one of the gorges North Caucasus, near the headwaters of
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and ... His son Chard (according to some – Cha) was also the son Chard. The latter was built in Arzi (Erzi) 16 "siege" towers and castles that exist at the present time. After Chard followed by his direct descendants: Oedipus, Elbiaz and the sons of the last Manuel (Mamil) and And (Yand). After the death of Manuel (Mamil) his son Daurbek quarreled with his uncle And, left Kist society and moved to a nearby, Dzherahovskoe society.

History

Early History

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