Editing Chechens (section)

===Nokhchiy===
Although ''Chechan'' (Chechen) was a term used by Chechens to denote a certain geographic area (central Chechnya), Chechens called themselves ''Nakhchiy'' (highland dialects) or ''Nokhchiy'' (lowland dialects). The oldest mention of ''Nakhchiy'' occurred in 1310 by the [[Georgian Orthodox Church|Georgian]] Patriarch Cyril Donauri, who mentions the 'People of Nakhche' among [[Tushetians]], [[Avars (Caucasus)|Avars]] and many other [[Northeast Caucasian]] nations. The term ''Nakhchiy'' has also been connected to the city [[Nakhchivan (city)|Nakhchivan]] and the nation of Nakhchamatyan (mentioned as one of the peoples of Sarmatia in the 7th-century Armenian work ''[[Ashkharhatsuyts]]'') by many Soviet and modern historians, although the historian N. Volkova considers the latter connection unlikely and states that the term Nakhchmatyan could have been mistaken for the ''Iaxamatae'', a tribe of Sarmatia mentioned in [[Ptolemy|Ptolemy's]] [[Geography (Ptolemy)|'' Geography'']], who have no connection to the Chechen people.<ref name="source1">{{cite web|title="Вайнахи и аланы" Руслан Арсанукаев о происхождении названий и самоназваний Чеченцев и Ингушей|url=https://ignorik.ru/docs/vajnahi-i-alani-ruslan-arsanukaev-o-proishojdenii-nazvanij.html|access-date=2020-11-06|archive-date=2022-01-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220124230851/https://ignorik.ru/docs/vajnahi-i-alani-ruslan-arsanukaev-o-proishojdenii-nazvanij.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Volkova|first=N. G.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aqoNAQAAIAAJ|title=Этнонимы и племенные названия Северного Кавказа|publisher=Nauka|year=1973|location=Moscow|pages=134–135|language=ru|trans-title=Ethnonyms and tribal names of the North Caucasus}}</ref> Chechen manuscripts in Arabic from the early 1820s do mention a certain ''Nakhchuvan'' (near modern-day [[Kağızman]], [[Turkey]]) as the homeland of all Nakhchiy. The etymology of the term ''Nakhchiy'' can also be understood as a [[Compound (linguistics)|compound]] formed with ''Nakh'' ('people') attached to ''Chuo'' ('territory').<ref name="ignorik.ru"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://chechenlaw.ru/?p=817|title = Предание о происхождении чеченцев| date=18 February 2017 }}</ref>