Editing Chechens (section)

==Geography and diaspora==
{{Main|Chechen diaspora}}
The Chechens are mainly inhabitants of [[Chechen Republic of Ichkeria|Chechnya]].{{sfn|Plaetschke|1929|p=}} There are also significant Chechen populations in other [[subdivisions of Russia]], especially in [[Aukh]] (part of modern-day [[Dagestan]]), [[Ingushetia]] and [[Moscow Oblast|Moscow]].
[[File:Kezenoyam 3.jpg|thumb|[[Lake Kezenoyam]], Chechnya]]
[[File:Хой б1ов тера.jpg|thumb|Khoy, Chechnya]]
Outside Russia, countries with significant diaspora populations are [[Kazakhstan]], [[Turkey]] and [[Arab states]] (especially [[Jordan]] and [[Iraq]]). Those in Turkey, Iraq, and Jordan are mainly descendants of families who had to leave Chechnya during the [[Caucasian War|Caucasus War]], which led to the [[History of Chechens in the Russian Empire|annexation of Chechnya]] by the [[Russian Empire]] in 1859, and the forcible transfer of Chechens from Terek Oblast to the Ottoman Empire in 1865.{{sfn|Hamed-Troyansky|2024|p=40, 74}} Those in Kazakhstan originate from the [[Deportation of the Chechens and Ingush|ethnic cleansing of the entire population]] carried out by [[Joseph Stalin]] and [[Lavrentiy Beria]] in 1944. Tens of thousands of [[Chechen refugees]] settled in the European Union and elsewhere as the result of the recent [[Second Chechen War|Chechen War]]s, especially in the wave of emigration to the [[Western world|West]] after 2002.<ref>Chechnya's Exodus to Europe, ''North Caucasus Weekly'' Volume: 9 Issue: 3, [[The Jamestown Foundation]], January 24, 2008</ref>