Members of the teip live all across the Chechen Republic and the Aukh region of today's Dagestan.
[8] In 1877, inhabitants of Zandak and other mountain villages in Eastern Chechnya, started an uprising under the fellow Zandkhoy Alibek-Hadzhi Aldamov.
The uprising lasted until 27 November, when Aldamov decided to surrender and put an end to the suffering Chechens went through.
[9] In the course of the Chechen-Ingush deportation in 1944, Zandak was renamed Dagbash and resettled with people from Dagestan.
After the restoration of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, the village returned to its former name Zandak and the Dagestanis resettled back to Dagestan.