Saingilo

Saingilo

Saingilo (Georgian: საინგილო) is a 19th-century term that is used to indicate the eastern part of the historic region of Hereti. Saingilo includes districts of Balakan, Zaqatala and Qakh – the territory of 4780 sq. km. the presently parts of Azerbaijan.

History

Initially this territory was a province of Caucasian Albania, until it ended its existence. After that, the region was a separate kingdom within Georgian cultural and political influence.There are data that support the assertion that in the fourth to fifth centuries Hereti was already a political component of Georgia; this is corroborated by surviving Georgian cultural monuments dating to the sixth to eighth centuries. The territory took part in establishing united Georgian Kingdom after it was incorporated into Georgia in the 8th century. For ages, the territory now called Saingilo has been a historic part of Georgia. During the medieval era what later became known as Saingilo was mostly controlled by the kingdom of Georgia.

In the Middle Ages seven Georgian schools operated in Saingilo which included the courses of theology, philosophy, orthography, church history, and the history of Georgia and Albania for the students. These schools played an essential cultural and educational. They put a vital contribution in establishing cultural relations among the peoples of the Caucasus. Literary materials were prepared in the schools for diffusion in the northern Caucasus. In the thirteenth to fourteenth centuries the use of the Georgian alphabet and Georgian Christian literature spread from Saingilo to the neighboring province of Daghestan, and churches were founded there, remnants of which can be seen today. for a long time, beginning in the fifth century, a significant part of Daghestan was within the sphere of Georgian political influence.

In the early 17th century, Shah Abbas I of Safavid of Persia took these lands from the king of Kakheti and granted them to the Dagestani feudal clans who enjoyed a degree of autonomy (Djar-Beylakan society, the sultanate of Ilisu). Northern Caucasian mountaineeres established there Avarian (in the Ch'ar-Belakan District) and Tsakhurian "free communes." As a result of raids conducted by bands of Avar and Tsakhur warriors in Saingilo, the Ingilos became serfs of the Daghestanian rulers, who forced them to make pay tribute. Some Daghestanian families hired themselves out as temporary workers on Ingilo farms. In this way, gradually, by peaceful or hostile means, these tribes settled in Saingilo and colonized it. Already after the foundation of the sultanate of Elisu the conquerors had, by a concerted effort, undertaken the Islamicization of the region. After 1801, when the Kingdom of Kartl-Kakheti (eastern Georgia) became part of the Russian empire the region ended up in the Imperial Russian conquest in 1803. From 1918 to 1920 both Democratic Republic of Georgia (DRG) and Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (ADR) claimed its territory as theirs, but the dispute never led to an armed confrontation. After the fall of the ADR in 1920, Soviet Russia and Azerbaijan SSR recognized it part of Georgia whose government granted these lands a degree of internal autonomy. Following the Sovietization of Georgia in 1921, the area officially became part of Azerbaijan as it was put under Azerbaijan SSR by the central communist government in Moscow. Nowadays there are Georgians - Ingilos (ინგილოები in Georgian, "Ingiloylar" in Azeri) living in this region of Azerbaijan (districts of Qax, Balakan and Zaqatala). Ingilos (more than 11 000 as of 1999) are an ethnographic group of Georgian people. Some part of Ingilos managed not to lose their original religion - Goergian Orthodox Christianity, but part of them became Muslims. Most of the Ingilos residing in Kakhi District are Christians at present. The other part of them makes the Muslim community.

The incident took place in June 9th 2007 when the Georgian ministry of Education Alexander Lomaia visited Saingilo in order to give the Georgian study books to the local schoolchildren. As the ingilo Georgians claimed the Azeri police forces had forcefully took away the books from the Georgian schoolchildren. That information is denied by the Azeri ministry of Education.

ee also

* History of Georgia

References

*Nugzar Mgeladze (Translated by Kevin Tuite). [http://www.everyculture.com/Russia-Eurasia-China/Ingilos.html Ingilos] . "World Culture Encyclopedia". Accessed on September 1, 2007.
*Clifton, John M. "et al" (2005). [http://www.sil.org/silesr/2005/silesr2005-008.pdf The Sociolinguistic situation of the Inghiloi of Azerbaijan] . "SIL Electronic Survey Reports" 2005-008: 12.
*http://saingilo.iatp.ge/zogadi_daxasiateba.htm
*http://www.everyculture.com/Russia-Eurasia-China/Ingilos-History-and-Cultural-Relations.html


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