who have no connection to the Chechen people. Chechen manuscripts in Arabic from the early 1820s do mention a certain Nakhchuvan (near modern-day Kagizman, Turkey) as the homeland of all Nakhchiy. The etymology of the term Nakhchiy can also be understood as a compound formed with nakh ('people') attached to chö ('territory, room').

Geography and diaspora

The Chechens are mainly inhabitants of Chechnya.

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