What is "daghestan"

Usage examples of "daghestan".

Russian government official, in some distant province, Daghestan, you know, out beyond the Caucasus, he was ordered there.

Six weeks since the day after, bringing her departure, her departure for the present, her temporary departure, for Daghestan, far away eastwards beyond the Caucasus.

A great Daghestan rug stretched along the parqueted floor, its faded colours repeated in the heavy draperies of the archways.

In Daghestan is Gunib, the last stronghold of the brave Shamyl, whom the strength of Russia was unequal to subdue during the space of thirty years.

According to a recent description, huge stones, seven feet thick, and twenty-one feet in length or height, are artificially joined without iron or cement, to compose a wall, which runs above three hundred miles from the shores of Derbend, over the hills, and through the valleys of Daghestan and Georgia.

There were two Lesghians, a Circassian, and three Tartars from Daghestan.

He had seen the carnage wreaked when it had all begun, when the Chechnya-based warlords, foreign associates of Osama bin Laden, invaded Daghestan and executed a string of bombings in Moscow and Volgodonsk that killed some two hundred people.