Chechnya

geographical name

Chech·​nya

variants or Chechenya or Chechenia

chech-ˈnyä 

ˈchech-nyə

or Chechen Republic

chi-ˈchen 

republic of southeastern Russia in Europe on the northern slopes of the Caucasus Mountains; capital Grozny area 4750 square miles (12,302 square kilometers), population 1,103,686

Note: Russian suppression of an independence movement resulted in extensive violence in Chechnya throughout most of the 1990s and into the 2000s.

Chechen adjective or noun