The Karachays (Къарачайлыла, Qaraçaylıla) are a Turkic people of the North Caucasus, mostly situated in the Russian Karachay-Cherkess Republic. History The Karachays are a Turkic people descending from the Kypchaks, with some admixture of the medieval Alans.[1] The state of Alania established in the Middle Ages had its capital in Maghas, which some authors locate in Arkhyz, the mountains currently inhabited by the… (More on Karachays)