ABSTRACT
The land of the Chechens consists of broad plains in the north gradually rising in the south to form part of the Caucasus, a mountain range higher than the Alps, spanning the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. The Chechens have lived there for millennia.1 Attila the Hun tried to subjugate the Caucasus peoples, including the Chechens, but was beaten back. Their Persian and Turkish neighbors to the south fought against the Chechens, but never were able to push the Chechens from their wild and rugged land that both protected and divided the Caucasus peoples. Then the Russians came.
