Gimry: Difference between revisions

Gimry was part of a group of villages called or Koysubu or Hindal. It was a center of resistance to Russia during the [[Murid War]] (1829-1859). Both [[Ghazi Muhammad|Kazi Mulla]] and [[Imam Shamil]] were born here in the 1790s. In 1830, Baron Rosen tried to attack it and gave up. In 1832, Kazi Mulla died here during the [[Battle of Gimry]]. In 1834, Lanskoy attacked it. In 1837, the Russians were defeated just to the north at the battle of the Ashitla bridge. Later in the same year the village of Ashitla to the west was destroyed. In 1839 it was neutral during the [[Siege of Akhoulgo]]. In 1840, Klugenau attacked it. After 1840, the center of resistance moved northwest to the forests of Chechnya. In 1920–1921, it was besieged by the Red Army from Christmas Day<ref>dates sic the source, Baddeley, Rugged Flanks of the Caucasus, V2,P33, note, citing Todorsky ,Krasnaya Armiya v Gorakh, Moscow, 1924</ref> until it was entered on February&nbsp;18. Ninety percent of the buildings were destroyed by artillery. A week later Ashitla was destroyed.

 

On December&nbsp;19, 2007, police blocked Gimry after the assassination of Deputy Gazimagomed Magomedov a few days before, and detained several local men accusing them of being supporters of [[Salafist]] rebels with links to [[Chechnya]]. Gimry was blockaded for several days and local residents claim that Russian soldiers have stolen from them and terrorized them during house-to-house searches. Gimry is one of the spiritual homes of Islam in the Eastern [[Caucasus]].

 

==See also==