Chamaecoetae

 ( History Of The Caucasus ) 

Chamaecoetae () 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 people and localize them in mountainous Ingushetia, in Khamkhi, while others question these theories and argue that more arguments are needed.

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Ethnonym and localization

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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:

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Localization For the first time in 1963, 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 Vainakhs tribes. Further on, he and again wrote about the connection of this ethnonym with the Ingush people and localizaed Chamaecoetae in Khamkhi:

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  who questioned these theories and argued that:
     

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See also

• Gelae
• Gargareans
• Gelonians
• Legae

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Notes

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