Kaitag

Kaitag was a state of the Kaitag Dargins in south-eastern Dagestan. Its rulers, known as utsmis, governed from Kala-Koreish fortress on the Derbent caravan road.

A Golden Horde ally, Kaitag was devastated by Timur in the late fourteenth century, after which the metalworking town of Zirikhgeran broke away. Utsmi Alilbek rebuilt the lowlands, and the court moved to Madzhalis in the sixteenth century. Kaitag fought Nader Shah in 1735; Russia deposed the last utsmi, Adil Khan, and abolished the title in 1820.