Kurakh

Kurakh lies in the mountain country between the Rubas and Samur rivers of southern Dagestan. It was the principal village of a Lezgi union of rural communities, whose size and political importance are recalled by an inscription on the wall of its congregational mosque. The surrounding district was known as Kura and comprised valleys north of the Samur. In the nineteenth century the Kura khanate encompassed Kurakh and neighboring lands, bordering other mountain societies and the khanate of Quba to the south.