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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 Republic of Dagestan — in the (eastern) Caucasus and North Caucasus regions of Southern Russia The main article for this category is Dagestan . Subcategories
Republic of Dagestan, Russia: Capital: Makhachkala: As of 2014: [1] Number of districts (районы) 41 Number of cities/towns (города) 10 Number of urban-type settlements (посёлки городского типа) 19 Number of selsovets (сельсоветы) 363 As of 2002: [2] Number of rural localities
From the first centuries of our era until the 15th century, Christianity of various movements constantly penetrated Dagestan. The central regions of the spread of faith for the Monophysites of Southern Dagestan were the Gregorids communities of Eastern Transcaucasia, for Catholics - the Italian colonies of the Crimea and the Pryazovia region, for the Eastern Orthodoxy - the territory of Georgia.
The Russian conquest of Chechnya and Dagestan (1817 – 25 August 1859), between 1829 and 1859 also called the Murid War, [1] was the eastern component of the Caucasian War of 1817–1864. In the Murid War, the Russian Empire conquered the independent peoples of the eastern Ciscaucasus .