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Temryuk's campaign in Ingushetia
Part of Circassian influence in North Caucasus
Date 1562 Location Ingushetia Result Circassian victory •Ingush were forced to go to the mountains
Belligerents
Circassia Nogai Cossacks	Ingush
Commanders and leaders
Temryuk Idar	unknown
Strength
Circassia : 5.000 Nogai : 1.500 Cossacks : 1.000	unknown
Casualties and losses
unknown	164 settlements were destroyed

In 1562, the Kabardian prince Temryuk Idarovich undertook a campaign of conquest against the Ingush living on the plain. Detachments of Nogai Murz arrived to help him. Russian Tsar Ivan IV the Terrible, married to Temryuk's daughter Maria, sent 1,000 Cossacks under the command of Grigory Pleshcheyev to help him. As a result of this combined Kabardino-Nogai-Cossack campaign, 164 settlements were defeated on the plain, judging by the Russian chronicles. The Ingush have gone back to the mountains. Kabardians settled in their former territory. The monuments left by the Kabardians are numerous low burial mounds. Kabardian burial mounds are characterized by a large number of stones in mounds, single burials in pits or in wooden decks. The buried always lie on their backs, with their heads facing west.

History

No one will remember when it was…

It must have been three hundred years ago. Our people were rich at that time, They live in the Doksolji Valley, They multiplied quickly to the Achaluk Mountains, And I would have lived until now if it hadn't been for the devil., Who was annoyed, That people live freely… It is known that the devil does not like the contented, And he likes to cry more… So he began to get sophisticated, To come up with means to take away their happiness And invented a punishment: He gathered his subordinates And gave them his order - To remove all the happy ones from the plain, Scattered over distant mountains and gorges. And the spirits, having received the order, They scattered to different countries in a flash, Hurry up to obey the command. And that's why, one day, Sometimes at night Nogai hordes with a crowd of Kabardians They attacked our villages, The inhabitants of which all slept peacefully. The massacre began everywhere, And blood stained the valley… Fires blazed everywhere… Our great-grandfathers jumped up from their sleep, They had no weapons in their hands In order to repel the attack, And they all died in a fierce battle. Women, virgins and children

They wept bitterly, being captured by the Nogais.

References

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2.Русско-осетинские отношения в XVIII веке. Т.II. Орджоникидзе. 1984. с.408

3.Газета «Терские ведомости», 1911.,21 июня, №129

4.Аталиков В.М. Северный Кавказ в XIII-XVвв. – журнал «Живая старина».1993, №3,с.32

5.История Кабардино-Балкарии в трудах Г.А.Кокиева. Нальчик, 2005 г., с. 185.

6.Будаев Н.М. Очерки политической истории народов Северного Кавказа в XVI – XXвв. Черкесск, 2007, с. 137.

7.Temryuk's campaign in Ingushetia

8.History Ingushetia

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