Tyarsh or Tarsh (), is an
aul
An aul; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; (; ) is a type of fortified village or town found throughout the Caucasus and Central Asia.
They are generally built out of stone, on faces of ridges or against cliffs in order to provide protection against su ...
in the
Dzheyrakhsky District
Dzheyrakhsky District (; , ) is an administrative and municipalLaw #5-RZ district (raion), one of the four in the Republic of Ingushetia, Russia. It is located in the south of the republic. The area of the district is .Official website of the Re ...
of
Ingushetia
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. It is part of the rural settlement of Olgeti (administrative center rural settlement). Tyarsh is the ancestral aul of
Ingush
Ingush may refer to:
* Ingush language, Northeast Caucasian language
* Ingush people, an ethnic group of the North Caucasus
See also
*Ingushetia (disambiguation)
Ingushetia is a federal republic and subject of Russia.
Ingushetia may also refer ...
clan (''
teip
A ''teip'' (also ''taip'', ''tayp'', ''teyp''; Chechen language, Chechen and Ingush language, Ingush: тайпа, romanized: ''taypa'' , ''family'', ''kin'', ''clan'', ''tribe''Нохчийн-Оьрсийн словарь (Chechen-Russian Dict ...
'')
Torshkhoy
''Torshkhoy'' (), also known in Ingush folklore as ''Them-Thoarshkhoy'' (, ''Torshkhoy-warriors''), is an Ingush clan (''teip'') which belongs to the Fyappin society. The ancestral auls of Torshkhoy are Tyarsh and Falkhan. A small number o ...
().
History
Historically Tyarsh was part of the
Fyappin society.
In 1810–1811 according to the testimony of representatives of the Ingush in connection with the entry of the latter into
Russian
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*A citizen of Russia
*Russian language, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages
*''The Russians'', a b ...
citizenship. The statement lists 13 villages of mountainous
Ingushetia
Ingushetia or Ingushetiya, officially the Republic of Ingushetia, is a republic of Russia located in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe. The republic is part of the North Caucasian Federal District, and shares land borders with the country o ...
, among them, is Tarsh (Tershi) in which there are 29 households.
One theory suggests that
Tarskoye
Tarskoye, formerly known as Angusht or Ongusht, is a rural locality (a selo) in Prigorodny District of the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania, Russia. Population:
Nomenclature
The modern name "Tarskoye", is derived from the name of the villag ...
valley got its name from the village of Tyarsh in the Metskhal society.
Researchers have also found evidence of festivities in honor of the god Bolom-Dyal in the villages of
Arzi, Tyarsh, Kelbizhti and the area of Makhate.
Medieval Era
A large
tower
A tower is a tall Nonbuilding structure, structure, taller than it is wide, often by a significant factor. Towers are distinguished from guyed mast, masts by their lack of guy-wires and are therefore, along with tall buildings, self-supporting ...
village of the castle type, Tyarsh was located on the spur of Mount Mat-Lam. The village was fortified with 3 combat, 3 semi-combat, and 8 residential towers, as well as stone defensive walls from the late Middle Ages. These towers were part of independent, but closely interconnected powerful castle complexes.
The Tyarsh village was known to be the origin of several prominent Ingush families, including the Tarshkhoevs, Daskievs, Daskhoevs, Marzabekovs, Polievs, Soslanovs, and Gudantovs.
Necropolis
0.3 km south of Tyarsh, on a gentle mountain slope, there is a compact group of necropolis of seven above-ground collective crypts from the late Middle Ages of the 16th-18th centuries. However, these crypts were partially destroyed in 1944.
North and north-west of Tyarsh, there are ground crypt tombs and a late medieval core-shaped mausoleum with a round base and a cone-shaped top.
Geography
Tyarsh is located on the spurs of the Rocky Range. The nearest villages: in the north - Guli, in the south-west - Olgeti.
[Военно-топографическая пятиверстная карта Кавказского края 1877 года]
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