Shirdi-Mokhk
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43°02′23″N 46°09′24″E / 43.03972°N 46.15667°E Shirdi-Mokhk (Russian: Шерды-Мохк, Chechen: Ширдий-Мохк, Şirdiy-Moxk)[1] is a rural locality (a selo) in Vedensky District, Chechnya.
Municipally, Shirdi-Mokhk is incorporated into Kurchalinskoye rural settlement. It is one of the six settlements included in it.[2]
Geography
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Shirdi-Mokhk is located on the right bank of the Gums River. It is located 40 kilometres (25 mi) north-east of the village of Vedeno.
The nearest settlements to Shirdi-Mokhk are Enikali in the north, Gezinchu in the north-east, Bas-Gordali in the east, Nizhny Kurchali in the south, Mesedoy in the south-west, and Guni in the north-west.[3]
Name
The village is considered as a general center for the Shirdiy teip (a part of the Nokhckmakhkakhoy tukkhum), whose name may have originated at the Chechen word "ширдолг", which translates roughly as "slingshot". This means that the name of the clan may mean "warriors armed with slingshots". The name of the village comes from the name of the clan, with the ending "-мохк", which translates from Chechen as "country" or "nation" or "territory". There is another version of how the village got its name - in the Kalmyk language, "ширди" roughly meant "people who dressed in quilted felt", which may describe burkas.