Vedeno, Russia

History

In the 19th century, Vedeno was the last capital of the Caucasian Imamate, an Islamic territory which existed in the territory of Dagestan and Chechnya from 1829 to 1859.

In the mid-19th century, Imam Shamil led his guerrilla army in a twenty-year war against the Imperial Russian army and fought a last stand in Vedeno. The village was captured by Russian forces on 1 April 1859. As a result, a fortress was built in the village. During the Russian Empire, the settlement was the administrative capital of the Vedensky Okrug of the Terek Oblast.

From September 1919 to March 1920, the village was the capital of the North Caucasian Emirate, an Islamic state which appeared in the territory of Chechnya and western Dagestan. Money was printed for the emirate in Vedeno. There were several different types of paper used for the money, including pages from school books.

In 1944, after the genocide and deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people and the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was abolished, Vedeno was one of the very few villages which was not renamed and had its original name preserved. However, on 7 June 1944, the Vedensky District was transferred to the Dagestan ASSR, with Vedeno as the administrative center.

In 1957, after the Vaynakh people returned from the deportation, Vedensky District returned to the restored Chechen-Ingush ASSR with Vedeno as the district center.

From the History section of Vedeno on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.