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Dagestan (/ ˌ d æ ɡ ɪ ˈ s t æ n,-ˈ s t ɑː n / DAG-i-STA(H)N; Russian: Дагестан; IPA: [dəɡʲɪˈstan]), officially the Republic of Dagestan, [a] is a republic of Russia situated in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe, along the Caspian Sea. It is located north of the Greater Caucasus, and is a part of the North Caucasian ...
The name Dagestan historically refers to the eastern Caucasus, taken by the Russian Empire in 1860 and renamed the Dagestan Oblast. The current, more autonomous Republic of Dagestan covers a much larger territory, established in 1921 as the Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic , by the inclusion of the eastern part of the Terek Oblast .
Dagestan's Tsarist era coat of arms. The Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic [a] (1921–1991), abbreviated as Dagestan ASSR [b] or DASSR [c] and also unofficially known as Soviet Dagestan or just simply Dagestan, was an autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR within the Soviet Union.
On 23 June 2024, coordinated attacks were launched in the cities of Derbent and Makhachkala in the Russian republic of Dagestan in the North Caucasus. [6] [7] Two synagogues, two Eastern Orthodox churches, and a traffic police post were attacked simultaneously [8] [9] with automatic weapons and Molotov cocktails. [10]
The 1999 war in Dagestan, also known as the Dagestan incursions [5] (Russian: Война в Дагестане), was an armed conflict that began when the Chechen-based Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade (IIPB), an Islamist group led by Shamil Basayev, Ibn al-Khattab, Ramzan Akhmadov and Arbi Barayev, invaded the neighboring Russian republic of Dagestan on 7 August 1999, in support of ...
The Republic of Dagestan — in the (eastern) Caucasus and North Caucasus regions of Southern Russia The main article for this category is Dagestan . Subcategories
After the annexation of Dagestan to Russia, moderate Russification took place on the territory, over time it reached the apogee of loyalty under Nicholas 2.. The policy in the Caucasus will be aimed entirely at pacifying the region through the urgent introduction of self-government, jury trials and other things, as well as a number of agrarian and other reforms in the field of local life.
The Head of Dagestan’s duty is to ensure compliance with the Russian Constitution and federal laws and the Constitution and laws of the Republic of Dagestan, as well as the equality of nations and the rights and freedoms of man and citizen, and the preservation of the unity and territorial integrity of the Republic of Dagestan.