Kist people

Kists
ქისტები
ПӀаьнгазхой
Total population
c. 9,000
Regions with significant populations
Pankisi Gorge, Kakheti and Tusheti (Georgia)
 Georgia5,697 (2014)[1]
 Russia707 (2010)[2]
Languages
Chechen (Kist dialect [ru]), Georgian
Religion
Predominantly Sunni Islam; minority Orthodox Christianity[3]
Related ethnic groups
Other Nakh peoples

The Kists (Georgian: ქისტები, kist'ebi; Chechen: P'ängazxuoj; Ingush: P'engisxuoj) are a Chechen sub-ethnic group in Georgia. They primarily live in the Pankisi Gorge, in the eastern Georgian region of Kakheti, where there are approximately 5,700 Kist people. The modern Kists are not to be confused with the historical term Kists, an ethnonym of Georgian origin, which was used to refer to the Nakh peoples in the Middle Ages.

Map of Kists in Georgia
  1. ^ "Ethnic composition of Georgia 2014". Population Statistics Eastern Europe and former USSR. Retrieved 2024-06-13.
  2. ^ Russian Census 2010: Population by ethnicity Archived April 24, 2012, at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
  3. ^ "The Kist". nomadictribe.com.