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Chamaecoetae (Template:Lang-grc) were an ancient tribe mentioned by Greek geographer Strabo in his work Geographica during the first century AD. Some researchers connect them with the Ingush and localize them in mountainous Ingushetia, in Khamkhi, while others question these theories and argue that more arguments are needed.

Ethnonym and localization

First and only mention

The first and only mention of the tribe is in work of the Greek geographer Strabo, Geographica. He stated in his work as follows:

"After the Troglodytae one comes to certain Chamaecoetae and Polyphagi, as they are called, and to the villages of the Eisadici, who are able to farm because they are not altogether exposed to the north."

Localization

For the first time in 1963, V. B. Vinogradov [ru] expressed the point of view about the ethnicity of the Chamaecoeta in his work "Sarmatians of the North-Eastern Caucasus" (Сарматы Северо-восточного Кавказа), he associated the ethnonym with the Vainakh tribes. Further on, he and Z. K. Chokaev [ru] again spoke about the connection of this ethnonym with the Ingush and localizaed Chamaecoetae in Khamkhi:

"Another ethnonym, Khamekets, turns out to be comparable with the name of one of the most ancient powerful Ingush taips, eponymous to its center, the mountain village of Khamkhi in the Assinsky Gorge."

E. I. Krupnov [ru] first localized the Chamaecoetae in mountainous Chechnya, but later agreed with B. V. Vinogradov and K. Z. Chokaev about the location near the Ingush village of Khamkhi. However, there were scholars like the Caucasologist N. G. Volkova [ru] who questioned these theories and argued that:

(...) "despite the great temptation of such comparisons, they require more argumentation."

See also

• Gelae
• Gargareans
• Gelonians
• Legae

Notes

1. In his work as well as in the works of Soviet and Russian scholars Chamaecoetae are transliterated in Russian as Khamekits (Хамекеты, Хамекиты).

References

1. Мищенка 1879, p. 516.
2. ^ Strabo 1928, p. 241.
3. ^ Виноградов & Чокаев 1966, pp. 25, 67.
4. ^ Крупнов 1971, p. 28.
5. Anchabadze 2001, p. 34.
6. ^ Волкова 1973, p. 124.

Bibliography

• Anchabadze, George (2001). Vainakhs (The Chechen and Ingush). Tbilisi: Caucasian House. pp. 1–76.
• Виноградов, В. Б.; Чокаев, К. 3. (1966). Виноградов, В. Б. (ed.). "Древние свидетельства о названиях и размещении нахских племен" [Ancient evidence of the names and location of the Nakh tribes]. Известия ЧИНИИИЯЛ (in Russian). Vol. 8, no. 1. Грозный: Чечено-Ингушское Книжное Издательство.{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• Волкова, Н. Г. (1973). Этнонимы и племенные названия Северного Кавказа [Ethnonyms and tribal names of the North Caucasus] (in Russian). Москва: Наука. pp. 1–210.
• Jaimoukha, A. M. (2005). The Chechens: A Handbook. Psychology Press. pp. 1–320. ISBN 0415323282.
• Крупнов, Е. И. (1971). Средневековая Ингушетия [Medieval Ingushetia] (in Russian). Москва: Наука. pp. 1–211.
• Мищенка, Ф. Г. (1879). География Страбона в семнадцати книгах [Geography of Strabo in seventeen books] (in Russian). Москва: К. Т. Солдатенков. pp. 1–1177.
• Strabo (1928) . Geography Of Strabo: in 8 volumes (in English and Ancient Greek). Vol. 5. Translated by Jones, H. L. London: W. Heinemann Ltd. pp. 1–541.
• Тесаев, Амин. К вопросу локализации племен Содов-Исадиков и Хамекитов античных авторов [On the issue of localization of the Sodov-Isadik and Khamekite tribes of ancient authors] (in Russian). pp. 35–39.

• History of the Caucasus
• History of Ingushetia
• Ingushetia