Kaitags

Kaitags (Kaitag: хайдакьан, Kumyk: хайдакълар, Tabassaran: хайдакьланти, Lezgian: къайтагъар) are an ethnic group of the Dargins, but sometimes considered as a separate people. Their number are estimated to be over 25,000. They live mainly on the territory of the Kaytagsky district of Dagestan, partly on the plain and in cities (Makhachkala, Derbent, Izberbash, etc.). Part of the Kaitag people were resettled in Chechnya in 1944, from where they later moved to the north of Dagestan. They speak the Kaitag language of the Dargin branch of the Northeast Caucasian family, but the Dargin literary language and Russian are also common. They are mostly Sunni Muslims.