Amir-Sultan I

Andunik (Avar: ГӏандуникӀ) or Amir-Sultan (Avar: ГӀамир-СултӀан I, late 12th – early 13th-centuries) was an Avar nutsal (ruler), who ruled in the 13th century and the son of Bayar II.

Biography According to the "Tarikhi Dagestan", about 40 years had passed since Masum bek came to power in Avar lands, by the time his great-grandson Amir-Ahmad ibn Chupan began to rule Khunzakh.

Approximately 30 years after the death of the nutsal (ruler) Abu Muslim, Amir-Sultan gathered an army from the Tsezes, Andians, Alans

The ghazis fled and some of them were taken prisoner. All those Chechens, Tushetians and others who converted to Islam immediately turned away from him and joined nutsal, who in gratitude to the Chechens gave them the village of Rikvani in their personal possession. According to oral tradition, the Avars killed Amir-Akhmad in the place called Karchik, 4 km from the village of Batlaich, and then buried him on the outskirts of Khunzakh in the area called "Samilazul khior" (Avar: "Lake of the Samilakhs"). According to B. G. Mallachikhanov, the murder of Amir-Ahmad took place at the beginning of the 13th-century. (according to another version, 24 years ), to fight against the Arabs. The Nutsaldom was taken into a blockade including an economic one, in the end peace was concluded, but with permission for the spread of Islam in the region. Tarikhi Dagestan reports that the Khundzakh people and their rulers converted to Islam 24 years after the assassination of Amir Ahmad ibn Chupan. Apparently then Andunik changed his name to Amir-Sultan.