Lekia

Lekia, called Lakz or Lakzan in Arabic writings, was a state of Lezgic-speaking peoples in the Samur basin of southern Dagestan.

By the thirteenth century it was breaking into village unions and hereditary lordships, including the Kurakh union. The Lezgin societies retained their independence through the later Middle Ages and joined other Dagestani peoples in raids on Georgia. Russian expansion into the Caucasus brought them under imperial rule in the early nineteenth century.