What is known about Kadyrov's teip - Benoy?
The head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, belongs to the Benoi teip, one of the most numerous and famous Chechen teips. Its representatives are brave warriors, talented leaders and true admirers of ancient customs. So what is known about Kadyrov's teip?
Historical facts
Teip (clan, tribe) - a unit of organization of the Vainakh peoples (Chechens, Ingush, Batsbi), which differs common origin the people included in it. The Chechen teip is not a genus in the ethnographic sense. There are cases when he united people according to principles, and not by consanguinity. Each teip is subdivided into gars and nekyi (branches and surnames).
Legends say that the ancient Chechens had a bronze cauldron with the names of the first twenty teips forged on it. Among them was Benoy.
The village of Benoy is mentioned in ancient Arabic-language sources of other peoples. Information about Benoy is available in the book of the first half of the 15th century by the Alanian traveler and Muslim missionary Azdin Vazar. This suggests that it is rightfully considered the oldest.
One of the leaders in number
Benoy is one of the most numerous teips in Chechnya. Representatives of this clan claim that out of a million Chechens, a third belongs to their teip. They are settled throughout the republic and are divided into nine genera: Jobi-nekye, Asti-nekye, Uonzhbi-nekye, Ati-nekye, Ochi-nekye, Chupal-nekye, Devshi-nekye, Edi-nekye and Gurzh-makhkahoy.
Large communities settled in Benoy, Shelkovsky, Gudermes districts, the villages of Novye Atagi, Urus-Martan, Goity, Alkhan-Yurt, Shali and others. Most of the Benoyites are in the city of Urus-Martan. Teip people live in Chechen Republic, the Republic of Dagestan, other regions of the Russian Federation, the Republic of Kyrgyzstan, the Republic of Kazakhstan, Turkey, Jordan, Saudi Arabia. A large number of the Benoites live in the diasporas of Western Asia.
Characteristic features of the Benoites
In the view of the Chechens, a true Benoev is a man of athletic build, tall, large, with big strong legs. Distinctive feature people of this kind - a calm disposition, sincerity, decency and gullibility. But at the same time, if they are angry, they will show everyone their militancy. People often say: "If you piss off a Benoite, then nothing can stop him."
At home, they are considered cunning and clumsy. But at the same time, the Benoyites are always fearless, true to their duty and word. They are well aware of the value of such concepts as "honor" and "decency". It was they who many centuries ago formed the backbone peasant people, who was able to get rid of the oppression of the Dagestan and Kabardian authorities. Representatives of this teip are considered the founders of democracy in the mountains, on which the ethnic mentality is based.
A. Berger in his book "Chechnya and Chechens" calls teip Benoy among the indigenous samiz noble Chechen surnames. Benoevtsy as the largest tribe in terms of numbers for a long time played a leading role in public and political life Chechnya.
Beliefs and values
Representatives of teip Benoy are considered true Chechens. They are proud of their belonging to this nation. national name"Nokhchiy" is pronounced with dignity, in contrast to some Chechens who are reluctant to call themselves "Nokhchiy", they try to put this name out of use and replace it with "Vain".
The people of this teip consider each other brothers and sisters. Helping a loved one is the first rule of the family. No matter how many kilometers separate them, upon learning that they are of the same teip, the Benoevs strive with all their might to help each other in case of danger or need. Protecting their honor, the honor of a brother or the entire teip is a paramount task for which they are ready to risk their lives.
military glory
The Benoyites have always taken the most active part in wars. In battles, they earned themselves unfading glory. Especially significant role they played in the Russian-Chechen war XVIII - mid-nineteenth centuries.
It is known that only with the support of the Benoyites did imams and commanders begin their movements in Ichkeria and throughout Chechnya. When the Chechens were attacked by enemies, the saying “Va Vezan Dela, benoin ortza lolah!” was born among the people! (Oh, Great God, give the Benoyan army to help).
Representatives of the teip showed their heroism in Caucasian war, in the Ichkerian (1842) and Dargin (1845) defeat tsarist armies, in a campaign against Georgia (1854) and others.
On May 13, 1859, all of Chechnya was conquered, and the foremen of all Chechen villages expressed their obedience to the tsarist military command. Only the Benoy villages did not submit. Brave, savvy people fled to the forests, formed new communities and again confronted the enemies, calling on everyone to defend their homeland to the last breath.
Today it is no longer possible to find out why and at what time such a system as Chechen teips was established. It is known that already in the middle of the eighteenth century, the Nokhchi (Chechens), having united with the Ingush, completely laid down their ethnic group. And until that time, it is not known how long a kind of military-economic unions, that is, Chechen teips, were formed.
Legend
Legends say that the ancestors of the Chechens had a bronze cauldron with the names of the first twenty teips forged on it, but the cauldrons that were not included in this list were melted down. Nevertheless, the names of the original twenty have been preserved: Sesankhoy Ilyesi-nekye, Benoy, Mlli-nekye, Yubak-nekye, Tsentoroy and the remaining fifteen.
Chechen teips also united with each other. These large formations were called tukhums. Already in the middle of the nineteenth century, nine tukhums united Chechen teips, of which there were one hundred and thirty-five. Today there are more of them, and they are divided into mountainous ones, of which there are more than a hundred, and plains, of which there are about seventy. Each teip is internally divided into branches and surnames (gars and nekis). The head is the council of elders of the teip, where the most experienced and distinguished representatives in addition, the position of a byachcha - a military leader is obligatory.
pure and mixed
Chechen teips were named, the list of which will be presented as completely as possible, according to the area where the clan lived, or the business that the clan was engaged in. For example, teip Kharachoy (translated into Russian - "cave") or teip Sharoy (translated - "glacier") are clearly named after the first type, but teip Peshkhoy is the teip of stove-makers, teip Khoy - guards, teip Deshni - gold jewelers .
There are pure and mixed teips. Nokhchmakhoy - this is the name of any pure teip - formed purely from Chechens, other blood was mixed with the rest. Guna, for example, is related to the Terek Cossacks, Kharacha - to a large extent with Circassian blood, Dzumsa - with Georgian, and Arsala - with Russian. Thus, mixed Chechen teips are distinguished. Their list is more extensive than the Nokhchmakhoy.
The main thing for teip is the beginning
Since this is a tribal union, the personality of each Chechen is formed here and all moral and moral standards. Postulates these Chechens call beginnings. Total started twenty-three. Some will be listed here. The inviolability and unity of customs for all members of the teip, without exception, is the first beginning. The second gives the right to land ownership on a communal basis. The third law is unlikely to correspond to the ideas of the rest civilized world- it prescribes blood feud for the murder of a relative in a teip, and this does not even depend on the proximity of kinship. To this day, pure Chechen teips are zealous about the established principles.
The fourth principle prohibits incest, that is, marriage between members of the teip is impossible. Fifth - for mutual assistance, if necessary, the entire teip is obliged to provide assistance to its representative. At the sixth beginning, the Chechens call to honor the dead: if a member of the teip dies, everyone wears mourning for a certain period of time, holidays and entertainment are prohibited. The seventh principle is about the council of elders, the eighth is about the choice of a leader and commander, not a single position is inherited. The ninth beginning is about representation, which is also decided by the council of elders, and the tenth is that positions in the council of elders are for life, but the history of Chechen teips also tells about cases of displacement of a representative.
blood feud
The third principle, which is professed by Chechen teips and tukhums, requires a wider disclosure. So, chir - for any person from the representatives of this genus. This is a custom with unusually deep roots. Even in the recent past, in the event of a murder, the whole family, and sometimes the teip, was forced to flee to foreign lands. Qi - blood - passed for many decades from generation to generation, until the last representative of a given surname, branch or teip was killed.
IN later time blood passes only to one family, but earlier the boundaries of the chir were determined by the council of elders of neutral teips.
Immediately after the murder, councils of elders gathered both in the teip where the misfortune happened, and in the one through whose fault it happened. In the first, they made a decision on revenge, and in the second, they looked for opportunities for reconciliation. Further negotiations followed. If the teip of the deceased did not agree to reconciliation, then neutral councils of elders were involved. If they did not win peace, then they began to work out the conditions for revenge: how widely revenge would spread, with what weapons. Under no circumstances should you kill a bloodline in the back and without warning, in holy month Ramadan, as well as on other holidays, cannot be killed in a crowded place and, even more so, at a party.
The beginning of the decomposition of the system
Civilization is taking over. Researchers are sure that today the teip system in Chechnya is gradually dying. Large teips - for example, Tsentaroy and Benoy - have grown so much that even blood relationship is forgotten and marriages within teips are possible. Many of them are gradually divided into an increasing number of genera, and the original teip becomes a tukhum.
Many Chechens remember the time when the youngest of them could name more than twenty tribes of their own direct ancestors. Now, not every young Chechen will even answer about belonging to a teip. Adults and the elderly are noticeably worried, because kinship in Chechen society is a fundamental value. People without a clan-tribe cannot be Chechens.
Noble Chechen teip
Yalkhoy, or rather, Yalkhoroy, a very famous teip. It was from him that the surname of Dudayev originated, and it is also one of the few teips in which alien hired workers existed, and according to other sources, slave labor. Origin is related to caste professional organization, warriors of Yalkhoroy even earned money by guarding the borders of other teips.
They lived in the village of the same name, as well as throughout Chechnya and Ingushetia, where they founded the village. The Yalkhoroians were the most loyal supporters of Dzhokhar Dudayev. Until now, this clan has a cult of militancy and many other purely mountainous values: hospitality, reverence for women. They have a resolute disposition and in their ancestors consider themselves to be people of princely dignity.
Only a few Chechen teips have been studied well enough. Their origin is established and confirmed by numerous studies of scientists. Much less is known about the rest, and the information varies due to the fact that they are collected most often from oral legends and legends.
Chechen teip Line (Chartoy)
This is an extremely interesting clan, most notable for the fact that the Chartoys almost never fought, but on the contrary, they were peacekeepers and often acted as mediators in any intra-Chechen affairs. He was either on his own or in the tukhum of Nokhchmahkahoy - the information varies.
They had a family village in Chechnya - Chartoy-Yurt, but also lived in a dozen more places in Chechnya and in Georgia. From well-known representatives was the naib of Imam Shamil and a colonel in the guards of Alexander the First. According to Chechen teips - Jewish origin only teip Chartoy, this explains many differences between this clan and others.
Belgatoy, Beltoy (Biltoy) and Cherma
Pretty big and famous all over Chechnya teip Belgatoy itself once existed as part of the Beltoy teip. The legend of origin is very beautiful. Once upon a time, it happened that an epidemic wiped out almost the entire Belgata, but a few survivors multiplied again and made their family even more successful than it was before. This is confirmed by the name itself: bel - "to die", gatto - "to resurrect". Among Chechens, Belgatoys are considered to be very energetic and efficient people.
Beltoy (or Biltoy) is also a numerous and well-known clan. From here came the politician Beybulat Taimiev, a contemporary of Pushkin, about whom the poet wrote during his trip to Arzrum. The people of Beltoy are settled everywhere, and in the old days they lived in the Nozhayyurt district, in the east of Chechnya. A well-known clan that the whole Teips knows, it is inhabited by various, but here is the most prominent political figure and the oilman Tapa Chermoev left from here. They settled mainly in the Mekhkets and near the Chermoy-Lam ancestral mountain, and in ancient times, as the legends say, all Chermoy people lived deep in the mountains.
Chechen teip Alleroy (Aleroy)
The name of this teip was kept on the legendary bronze cauldron brought by the ancestors to Nakhsh. It was here, in a settlement scattered throughout the country, but rooted in Eastern Chechnya, it was in this clan that the ex-president, who became a bandit, was born. This teip is clean, along with others written on a bronze cauldron, it is included in nakhchmakhkahoy. Settled in Nozhai-Yurt and Shali districts.
The story of the Alleroi has existed since about the fifteenth century, after the invasion of Khan Timur, who killed many local residents and left in Chechnya his deputies from the Kabardian princes, Takrov, Nogai, Jai murzas and khans. The Chechens quickly multiplied and began to make daring attacks on the Timur vassals, trying to make a reconquista - to win back their lands. The first Aller founded the aul of the Alleroi, united the compatriots who remained after the invasion of the Tatar-Mongols in order to defend their lands. Alleroy is divided internally into five more teips, since the genus has become numerous, and it is still considered pure.
Benoy
It must be the most numerous of the teips in Chechnya, at least in second place in terms of numbers. Benoy billionaire Malik Saidullaev claims that out of the million remaining Chechens, three hundred and sixty thousand belong to the Benoy teip. They are settled throughout the republic, divided into nine genera. In all wars they took an active part, where they won unfading glory. For example, Baysangur Benoevsky did not leave Shamil until the very end, despite the military success that turned away from the hero.
A huge number of Benoyites live in the diasporas of Western Asia, from where terrorism is spreading throughout the world. And in Chechnya, on the contrary, the Benoyites are considered clumsy and cunning in a rural way. However, even here they are fearless, true to their word and duty. Many centuries ago, they formed the backbone of the peasant strata of the people, who overthrew the power of the Dagestan and Kabardian rulers. These are the fathers of mountain democracy, which became the foundation ethnic mentality. Among the clans of teip Benoy there are both Russian and Georgian blood.
Gendargenoy
The teip is also extremely numerous and famous, moreover - the center one, from the historical Nokhchiymokhk, widely settled in Chechnya. Diplomat and politician Doku Zavgaev is from here. Here is a granary for Chechnya, and for Dagestan, and much more remote places. It was here that the pre-Islamic Nashkha existed as a cultural, political, ritual and religious center.
The Council of the country (Mekhk khelov) was based here, from where pure Chechen teips appeared, among which, of course, Gendargenoy, whose representatives in the entire history of the country occupied one of the most prominent places. Soviet authority allowed the Gendargenoi to learn, which they did with greater success than members of other clans. That is why this teip gave the country many leaders, party members and business executives.
Kharachoy and Deshni
This teip is famous for its representatives - and those who lived in different centuries, but with roughly equal fame. Information about this clan got into written Russian documents very early, and the Chechens say that it was the Kharachois who were the first to marry Russians, which did not prevent Zelimkhan from becoming an outstanding fighter against the royal power when the Caucasus was conquered. Chechnya respects this teip very much, considers it the most intelligent.
Deshni - mountain clan, south-east of the country, belongs to pure teips. Still preserved here princely surnames. One of those wearing this many years ago was able to marry a Georgian princess, passing off Mount Deshni-lam, which belongs to the entire teip, as his own. Now Deshni live everywhere, even in Ingushetia.
Nashkhoy and Zurzakhoy
Nashkho, the homeland of pure teips, is the entogenetic center of the Nokhchimatiens of the Middle Ages, which are mentioned by Armenian geographers of the nineteenth century. They lived in the southeast of the country. Some researchers classify the entire population of this area as one teip. Others subdivide.
Zurzakhoy is a teip from the original, even in its name it retained the medieval ethnonym - dzurzuk, as the ancestors of the Chechens and Ingush called themselves. This teip was not included in the tukhums, always occupying an independent position. He was not alone like that, even Sadoy, Peshkhoy, Maista.
According to Novaya Gazeta, last week the 4th Department for Particularly Important Cases of the Investigation Department Investigative Committee Chechnya opened a criminal case under article 277 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - “encroachment on the life of a state or public figure». It's about about the investigation failed attempt attempt on the life of the head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov, which was prepared last spring on the territory of the Nozhai-Yurt district of Chechnya.
All the detainees were from Benoy teip, some belonged to the most famous Chechen families, others were relatives of high-ranking Chechen officials, including the head of the republic, Kadyrov himself. So, according to Novaya Gazeta, the cousin of the nephew of the head of Chechnya, Islam Kadyrov, Valid Yakhikhanov, was detained.
According to Novaya Gazeta, Valid Yakhikhanov, taking advantage of his close relationship with his brother Islam Kadyrov, obtained the secret telephone number of the head of Chechnya, which was known only to a limited circle of people closest to Ramzan Kadyrov (literally a few people).
Valid Yakhikhanov gave this number to Badrudi Yamadayev, one of the two surviving Yamadayev brothers.
Badrudi Yamadayev
The Yamadayevs are no less famous than the Kadyrovs, the Chechen clan. The surviving brothers consider Kadyrov guilty of the murder of State Duma deputy from the Chechen Republic Ruslan Yamadayev and commander of the Vostok battalion Sulim Yamadayev. For many years, it was Badrudi who was considered the most dangerous enemy of Kadyrov, his bloodline.
According to Novaya Gazeta, when his most dangerous enemy called Kadyrov on his personal secret number, he literally went into shock.
As a result of a prompt and very tough internal investigation (the nephew of the head of Chechnya, the head of his administration, Islam Kadyrov, appeared in public at the same time with plaster on both hands), the source of the leak, Vakhid Yakhikhanov, was identified. It was he who handed over information about the assassination attempt being prepared in the village of Benoy.
Islam Kadyrov at a meeting of the government of the Chechen Republic with plaster on both hands. May 2016
In the village of Benoy, Kadyrov has a huge residence. As a result of a thorough check, a planted explosive device of high power was found there. It also became known that in addition to Benoy, attacks were simultaneously being prepared on the residences of the head of Chechnya in several other large settlements(including Grozny). During the searches, large quantities of the latest small arms, grenade launchers, and explosives were confiscated from the conspirators.
One of the first to suffer because of this situation was Nazhud Guchigov, the head of the Nozhai-Yurt District Department of Internal Affairs, who became known to the whole world thanks to his forced marriage to an underage resident of the village of Baitarki Kheda Goylabieva
Guchigov was accused, in fact, of unprofessionalism and removed from his post as head of the district police department. At one point, the head of the police of the Nozhai-Yurt district, close and kindly treated by Kadyrov, lost all his privileges.
The "Benoevsky" conspiracy against Kadyrov was the most ambitious attempt to physically eliminate the head of Chechnya and his inner circle. Information about him was carefully hidden. Three months later, elections were to be held for the head of the republic. Kadyrov wanted to appear to Moscow as a confident winner. But information about such a large-scale conspiracy could compromise him and did not fit in with the "unanimous" support of the population. What kind of support can there be at all when even the elite is rebelling in the republic?
This was the second reason for Kadyrov's atypical restraint. The conspirators were from the same teip with him, came from famous families, whom Kadyrov gave the opportunity to rule the republic as his fiefdom. Radical measures would only aggravate the conflict within the Chechen ruling class. Therefore, many conspirators were severely punished, but their lives were spared.
However, Kadyrov was not going to put an end to this story. Having assessed all the risks and abandoned the practice of collective responsibility, the Chechen authorities decided to use Russian law. Moreover, no matter how ridiculous it may sound, only the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation allowed reaching out to the organizers of the assassination attempt in this situation.
The first step in this "retaliation operation" was Kadyrov's official recognition of the assassination attempt. On September 16, on the eve of the elections, when technically victory was no longer in doubt, Kadyrov gave an interview to the Chechen media. During the interview, a clearly sanctioned question was asked by a Chechen journalist: “This was talked about for a long time, it was discussed for a long time, I don’t know if this is a rumor or not, I ask you to refute this or confirm whether an assassination attempt was being prepared on you or not? Recently, there were such rumors, we just did not find official confirmation of this information.
Video of Ramzan Kadyrov's press conference. Watch from 1:05:00
Indeed, - Kadyrov answered the question, - there were moments, but the security service worked in time. Well, it so happened that the criminals failed to realize their plans. But these are such frivolous moments, if every moment is given importance there, then we will stop working, stop living, we will sit there, you know, and watch what will happen tomorrow. Therefore, there is no need to pay special attention to them.
At the same time, according to Novaya Gazeta (now this is confirmed by the fact that a criminal case was opened under Article 277 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Chechen Republic continued to carry out a set of operational-search measures in order to establish the role of the Yamadayev brothers in this attempt.
Belongs to teip Benoy, one of the most numerous and famous Chechen teips. Its representatives are brave warriors, talented leaders and true admirers of ancient customs. So what is known about Kadyrov's teip?
Historical facts
Teip (genus, tribe) is a unit of organization of the Vainakh peoples (Chechens, Ingush, Batsbi), which is distinguished by the common origin of its constituent people. The Chechen teip is not a genus in the ethnographic sense. There are cases when he united people according to principles, and not by consanguinity. Each teip is subdivided into gars and nekyi (branches and surnames).
Legends say that the ancient Chechens had a bronze cauldron with the names of the first twenty teips forged on it. Among them was Benoy.
The village of Benoy is mentioned in ancient Arabic-language sources of other peoples. Information about Benoy is available in the book of the first half of the 15th century by the Alanian traveler and Muslim missionary Azdin Vazar. This suggests that it is rightfully considered the oldest.
One of the leaders in number
Benoy is one of the most numerous teips in Chechnya. Representatives of this clan claim that out of a million Chechens, a third belongs to their teip. They are settled throughout the republic and are divided into nine genera: Jobi-nekye, Asti-nekye, Uonzhbi-nekye, Ati-nekye, Ochi-nekye, Chupal-nekye, Devshi-nekye, Edi-nekye and Gurzh-makhkahoy.
Large communities settled in Benoy, Shelkovsky, Gudermes districts, the villages of Novye Atagi, Urus-Martan, Goity, Alkhan-Yurt, Shali and others. Most of the Benoyites are in the city of Urus-Martan. Teip natives live in the Chechen Republic, the Republic of Dagestan, other regions of the Russian Federation, the Republic of Kyrgyzstan, the Republic of Kazakhstan, Turkey, Jordan, Saudi Arabia. A large number of Benoevs live in the diasporas of Western Asia.
Characteristic features of the Benoites
In the view of the Chechens, a true Benoev is a man of athletic build, tall, large, with big strong legs. A distinctive feature of people of this kind is a calm disposition, frankness, decency and gullibility. But at the same time, if they are angry, they will show everyone their militancy. People often say: "If you piss off a Benoite, then nothing can stop him."
At home, they are considered cunning and clumsy. But at the same time, the Benoyites are always fearless, true to their duty and word. They are well aware of the value of such concepts as "honor" and "decency". It was they who, many centuries ago, formed the backbone of the peasant people, who were able to get rid of the oppression of the Dagestan and Kabardian authorities. Representatives of this teip are considered the founders of democracy in the mountains, on which the ethnic mentality is based.
A. Berge in his book "Chechnya and Chechens" calls teip Benoy among the indigenous Samyz noble Chechen families. The Benoevtsy, as the largest tribe in terms of numbers, played a leading role in the social and political life of Chechnya for a long time.
Beliefs and values
Representatives of teip Benoy are considered true Chechens. They are proud of their belonging to this nation. The national name "Nokhchi" is pronounced with dignity, unlike some Chechens who are reluctant to call themselves "Nokhchi", trying to put this name out of use and replace it with "Vain".
The people of this teip consider each other brothers and sisters. Helping a loved one is the first rule of the family. No matter how many kilometers separate them, upon learning that they are of the same teip, the Benoevs strive with all their might to help each other in case of danger or need. Protecting their honor, the honor of a brother or the entire teip is a paramount task for which they are ready to risk their lives.
military glory
The Benoyites have always taken the most active part in wars. In battles, they earned themselves unfading glory. They played a particularly significant role in the Russian-Chechen war of the 18th - mid-19th centuries.
It is known that only with the support of the Benoyites did imams and commanders begin their movements in Ichkeria and throughout Chechnya. When the Chechens were attacked by enemies, the saying “Va Vezan Dela, benoin ortza lolah!” was born among the people! (Oh, Great God, give the Benoyan army to help).
Representatives of the teip showed their heroism in the Caucasian War, in the Ichkerian (1842) and Dargin (1845) defeat of the tsarist armies, in the campaign against Georgia (1854) and others.
On May 13, 1859, all of Chechnya was conquered, and the foremen of all Chechen villages expressed their obedience to the tsarist military command. Only the Benoy villages did not submit. Brave, savvy people fled to the forests, formed new communities and again confronted the enemies, calling on everyone to defend their homeland to the last breath.
The head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, belongs to the Benoi teip, one of the most numerous and famous Chechen teips. Its representatives are brave warriors, talented leaders and true admirers of ancient customs. So what is known about Kadyrov's teip?
Historical facts
Teip (genus, tribe) is a unit of organization of the Vainakh peoples (Chechens, Ingush, Batsbi), which is distinguished by the common origin of its constituent people. The Chechen teip is not a genus in the ethnographic sense. There are cases when he united people according to principles, and not by consanguinity. Each teip is subdivided into gars and nekyi (branches and surnames).
Legends say that the ancient Chechens had a bronze cauldron with the names of the first twenty teips forged on it. Among them was Benoy.
The village of Benoy is mentioned in ancient Arabic-language sources of other peoples. Information about Benoy is available in the book of the first half of the 15th century by the Alanian traveler and Muslim missionary Azdin Vazar. This suggests that it is rightfully considered the oldest.
One of the leaders in number
Benoy is one of the most numerous teips in Chechnya. Representatives of this clan claim that out of a million Chechens, a third belongs to their teip. They are settled throughout the republic and are divided into nine genera: Jobi-nekye, Asti-nekye, Uonzhbi-nekye, Ati-nekye, Ochi-nekye, Chupal-nekye, Devshi-nekye, Edi-nekye and Gurzh-makhkahoy.
Large communities settled in Benoy, Shelkovsky, Gudermes districts, the villages of Novye Atagi, Urus-Martan, Goity, Alkhan-Yurt, Shali and others. Most of the Benoyites are in the city of Urus-Martan. Teip natives live in the Chechen Republic, the Republic of Dagestan, other regions of the Russian Federation, the Republic of Kyrgyzstan, the Republic of Kazakhstan, Turkey, Jordan, Saudi Arabia. A large number of Benoevs live in the diasporas of Western Asia.
Characteristic features of the Benoites
In the view of the Chechens, a true Benoev is a man of athletic build, tall, large, with big strong legs. A distinctive feature of people of this kind is a calm disposition, frankness, decency and gullibility. But at the same time, if they are angry, they will show everyone their militancy. People often say: "If you piss off a Benoite, then nothing can stop him."
At home, they are considered cunning and clumsy. But at the same time, the Benoyites are always fearless, true to their duty and word. They are well aware of the value of such concepts as "honor" and "decency". It was they who, many centuries ago, formed the backbone of the peasant people, who were able to get rid of the oppression of the Dagestan and Kabardian authorities. Representatives of this teip are considered the founders of democracy in the mountains, on which the ethnic mentality is based.
A. Berge in his book "Chechnya and Chechens" calls teip Benoy among the indigenous Samyz noble Chechen families. The Benoevtsy, as the largest tribe in terms of numbers, played a leading role in the social and political life of Chechnya for a long time.
Beliefs and values
Representatives of teip Benoy are considered true Chechens. They are proud of their belonging to this nation. The national name "Nokhchi" is pronounced with dignity, unlike some Chechens who are reluctant to call themselves "Nokhchi", trying to put this name out of use and replace it with "Vain".
The people of this teip consider each other brothers and sisters. Helping a loved one is the first rule of the family. No matter how many kilometers separate them, upon learning that they are of the same teip, the Benoevs strive with all their might to help each other in case of danger or need. Protecting their honor, the honor of a brother or the entire teip is a paramount task for which they are ready to risk their lives.
military glory
The Benoyites have always taken the most active part in wars. In battles, they earned themselves unfading glory. They played a particularly significant role in the Russian-Chechen war of the 18th - mid-19th centuries.
It is known that only with the support of the Benoyites did imams and commanders begin their movements in Ichkeria and throughout Chechnya. When the Chechens were attacked by enemies, the saying “Va Vezan Dela, benoin ortza lolah!” was born among the people! (Oh, Great God, give the Benoyan army to help).
Representatives of the teip showed their heroism in the Caucasian War, in the Ichkerian (1842) and Dargin (1845) defeat of the tsarist armies, in the campaign against Georgia (1854) and others.
On May 13, 1859, all of Chechnya was conquered, and the foremen of all Chechen villages expressed their obedience to the tsarist military command. Only the Benoy villages did not submit. Brave, savvy people fled to the forests, formed new communities and again confronted the enemies, calling on everyone to defend their homeland to the last breath.
