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" Laks - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Tsibenko, Veronika
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AL
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English
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1062564
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ALei2961
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Tsibenko, Veronika
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Laks - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Tsibenko, Veronika
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(907 words)
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The Laks are an indigenous people of the mountainous part of Dagestan, in the Northern Caucasus. Ancient Greek authors (Herodotus 7.72, Strabo 11.5.1, Plutarch, Pompey , 35) mentioned the Ligyes (Λίγυες), Legaes (Λήγας), and Leges (Λήγες), who are supposed to be the ancestors of Laks as well as of the Lezgis and some other peoples of Dagestan. The capital of Lakia, the historical land of the Laks, is Kumukh (Ar. Ghumīk), so the Laks are known also as Kazi-Kumukhs. In the sixth century C.E., Kumukh was
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Islam.
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ALei2961.pdf
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