Kumyk may refer to:
- the Kumyks
- the Kumyk language
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Kumyk may refer to:
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Kumyks are a Turkic people living in the Kumyk plateau, the lands bordering the Caspian Sea, Northern Ossetia, Chechnya and the banks of the Terek river. They speak the Kumyk language, which until the 1930s had been the lingua-franca of the Northern Caucasus.
Dagestan, officially the Republic of Dagestan, is a federal subject of Russia, located in the North Caucasus region. Its capital and largest city is Makhachkala, centrally located on the Caspian Sea coast.
Kumyk is a Turkic language, spoken by about 426,212 speakers — the Kumyks — in the Dagestan, North Ossetia, and Chechen republics of the Russian Federation.
The Khuni, Huni or Chuni were a people of the North Caucasus during late antiquity. They have sometimes been referred to as the North Caucasian Huns and are often assumed to be related to the Huns who later entered Eastern Europe. However, the ethnolinguistic and geographical origins of the Khuni are unclear.
The Kipchak language is an extinct Turkic language and the common ancestor of the Kipchak branch of Turkic languages.
Tarki, formerly also spelled Terki and Terkee and also known as Tarku, is an urban locality under the administrative jurisdiction of Sovetsky City District of the City of Makhachkala in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia, located on the Tarkitau Mountain. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 15,356.
The peoples of the Caucasus are diverse comprising more than 50 ethnic groups throughout the Caucasus region.
Marid Mutalimov is a Kazakhstan wrestler of Kumyk ethnicity, who has won a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Bakhtiyar Shakhabutdinovich Akhmedov is a Russian wrestler of Kumyk descent.
Magomedgasan Abushev is a Kumyk retired featherweight freestyle wrestler from Dagestan. Competing for the Soviet Union he won gold medals at the 1980 Olympics and 1980 European Championships.
Saypulla Absaidov is a former Soviet wrestler of the Kumyk ethnicity and Olympic champion and World Champion 1981 in Freestyle wrestling.
Arsen Aliyevich Akayev is a Russian professional football coach and a former player of Kumyk origin.
Shamkhalate of Tarki was a feudal domain in north-eastern part of Dagestan with its center in Tarki.
Deir Ful is a village in northern Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate, located northeast of Homs. Nearby localities include al-Rastan to the west, al-Zaafaraniyah to the southwest, al-Mishirfeh and Ayn al-Niser to the south, Danibah and Khunayfis to the east, Izz al-Din to the northeast and Ghor al-Assi to the northwest. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Deir Ful had a population of 1,614 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are predominantly Circassians.
Nariman Magomedovich Israpilov is a Kumyk freestyle wrestler from Russia. He competes in the 66 kg division and won the gold medal in the same division at the 2013 Summer Universiade defeating Samat Nadyrbek Uulu of Kyrgyzstan. Golden Grand-prix Baku 2016 runner-up.
Ilyas Idrisovich Bekbulatov is a Russian-Uzbekistani freestyle wrestler of Kumyk ethnicity, who won the gold medal at the 2017 European Wrestling Championships. He also won bronze at the first 2015 European Games. Bekbulatov is a four-times Ivan Yarygin Grand-Prix winner. He was the first who beat American undefeated wrestler Brent Metcalf. He is International Master of Sports in freestyle wrestling.
The participation of Kumyk in the Bala Turkvision Song Contest was originally planned to begin in Istanbul, Turkey, at the inaugural Bala Turkvision Song Contest in 2015. МKО "Qumuqlar" (MKOQ) was responsible for the selection process of their participant, for their debut in 2015. Karim Salavatov was selected as Kumyks first representative for the Bala Turkvision Song Contest 2015. However, they were forced to withdraw from the contest on 7 December 2015, due to the Russia–Turkey relations in the aftermath of the 2015 Russian Sukhoi Su-24 shootdown near the Syria–Turkey border on 24 November 2015.
Kumyk participated in the Turkvision Song Contest for the first time at the Turkvision Song Contest 2016, held in Istanbul, Turkey. Although they are not a country nor a region they are a Turkic ethnic group who do not have a defined region. They were originally going to make their debut at the 2015 contest but later withdrew due to the state of international relations between the Russia and Turkey.
Kostek is a village (selo) in the Khasavyurt District of the Republic of Dagestan in Russia. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 4,551. It is the administrative center of the rural settlement of Kostekskogo.