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Bezhta people
The Bezhta people (Kapuchi) are an ethnic group of the Avars. In the written sources and historic and ethnographic literature they are known as the Kapuchi.
Language
They speak the Bezhta language, which belongs to the Tsezic subgroup of the Avar-Ando-Tsezic group of the Nakh-Dagestan language branch of the North Caucasus language family.
Dispersion
The ethnic territory of the Bezhta people is located in the western highland Dagestan (the Bezhta sector); their settlements are located along the left tributaries of the Avar Koysu river, in the branches of the Greater Caucasus and Bogos ridges. The main Bezhta villages are: Bezhta, Khasharkhota, Tlyadal and the hamlets around them.
