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| Total population | |
|---|---|
| c. 70,000 (2006)[1] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Russia | ? |
 Chechnya | ? |
 Ingushetia | ? |
 Dagestan | ? |
| Languages | |
| Chechen, Ingush | |
| Religion | |
| Sunni Islam | |
The Orstkhoy,[a] historically commonly known under their exonyms: Karabulaks, Balsu, Baloy, are a historical ethnoterritorial society among the Chechen and Ingush peoples. Their homeland is in the upper reaches of the Assa and Fortanga rivers in the historical region of Orstkhoy-Mokhk (the Sernovodsky District and the border part of the Achkhoy-Martanovsky District of the Chechen Republic, Russia, as well as most of the Sunzhensky District of Ingushetia). In the tradition of the Chechen ethno-hierarchy, it is considered one of the nine historical Chechen tukkhums, in the Ingush tradition as one of the seven historical Ingush shahars.[2]
- ^ Meskhidze 2006, p. 190 (note 19).
- ^ Павлова 2012, pp. 56, 83.
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