Aukhs

Ethnographic map of the Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Aukhs green
Aukh (American map of the Caucasus 1910).

Aukhs (Chechen: Ӏовхой) are an ethnographic group of Chechens. Aukhs are currently living in the territories of Novolaksky (former Aukh District), Khasavyurtovsky, Babayurtovsky and Kazbekovsky (Western part of the Aukh) areas of modern central Dagestan, along the rivers Yamansu, Yaryksu, Aktash and Aksai (earlier Eastern Chechnya). They speak the Aukh dialect of the Chechen language.

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