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n. A Russian republic in the Caucasus region.
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The Republic of Dagestan ( or ; , ), also spelled Daghestan, is a federal subject (a republic) of Russia, located in the North Caucasus region. Its capital and largest city is Makhachkala, located at the center of Dagestan on the Caspian Sea.
With a population of 2,910,249, Dagestan is very ethnically diverse and Russia's most heterogeneous republic, with none of its several dozen ethnicities and subgroups forming a majority. Largest among these ethnicities are the Avar, Dargin, Kumyk, Lezgian, Laks, Azerbaijani, Tabasaran and Chechen. Ethnic Russians comprise about 3.6% of Dagestan's total population. Russian is the primary official language and the lingua franca among the ethnicities.
Dagestan has been a scene of Islamic insurgency, occasional outbreaks of separatism, and ethnic tension since the 1990s. According to International Crisis Group, the militant Islamist organization Shariat Jamaat is responsible for much of the violence. Much of the tension is rooted in an internal Islamic conflict between traditional Sufi groups advocating secular government and more recently introduced Salafist teachers preaching the implementation of Sharia in Dagestan .
Dagestan or Daghestan may refer to:
- Republic of Dagestan, a federal subject of Russia
- Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1921–1993), an administrative division of the Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
- 2297 Daghestan, asteroid
- Dagestan, a Gepard-class frigate laid down in 1994 and currently active in the Russian Caspian Sea fleet.
Usage examples of "dagestan".
She'd suspected that Isaak was one of the Mountain Jews of Dagestan, but she hadn't expected so crude a confirmation.
We're checking records in Dagestan, Kalmyk, and other republics on the Caspian, but my guess is she's a rogue.
As for the rest of the airports - civilian and military alike - they've been getting paid in cans of pork-and-beans plundered from American relief aid to the breakaway so-called Dagestan Province!