Madzhalis (Russian: Маджалис; Dargwa: Мажалис) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Kaytagsky District of the Republic of Dagestan, Russia.
[6] According to the list of populated areas of the Dagestan region in 1888, only “Tatars” are indicated in the nationality column, which meant Kumyks,[7] who made up the majority, and Jews.
[8] The Scottish baron and traveler John Abercromby wrote in 1889 that Madzhalis, except for its Jewish element (quarter), was inhabited by “Tatars”.
Mountain Jews lived in the Tuben-Aul (“Lower Aul”) quarter, where they moved in the 19th century after a pogrom in three Jewish villages located nearby.
A burial ground dating back to the first millennium BC was found 50 meters south of the Madzhalis second settlement.
[15] Near the village, a bronze dagger of the Western Asian type, dating from the twelfth-tenth centuries BC, was also found.