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[citation needed] Dagestan underwent a rise in Islamic militancy in the early 2000s. [24] Violence in the Republic occurred in 2010–2012. [citation needed] This upsurge led some people to fear that Dagestan was about to enter into a sectarian civil war. Dagestan became the epicenter of violence in the North Caucasus with Makhachkala, Kaspiisk ...
The Avar Khanate, the Avar Nutsaldom (Avar: Avar Nutsallhi; Russian: Аварское ханство), also known as Khundzia or Avaria, was a long-lived Avar state, which controlled mountainous parts of Dagestan (in the North Caucasus) from the early 13th century to the 19th century.
The 1897 Russian Imperial census indicated 912 Arabic-speakers in central and southern Dagestan [11] and none in what would become Azerbaijan. Notably, literary Arabic retained its role as the language of learning in Dagestan for centuries [ 12 ] and was the main language of instruction in the local schools from 1920 to 1923 until replaced by ...
The Islamic regions of Chechnya and Dagestan were subjugated by the Russian Empire in the 19th century, shortly after Ukraine was also brought under the control of the czars in St. Petersburg ...
Over the years, Russia's southern republic of Dagestan, located in the North Caucasus region, has been beset by extremist violence. This weekend, there was more bloodshed. Officials say five ...
In 1930 Ali Kayaev, a Dagestani Muslim reformer and a native of Kumukh, was arrested and exiled to Southern Ural. He was accused of participating in a counterrevolutionary organization. [11] In 1934 Ali Kayaev returned from exile and worked in a Research Institute of Dagestan. Local industry began to develop in the Lak district during this period.
A source from 1836 recorded that local Muslims in Derbent used "Tatar" (referring to Azerbaijani or Turkic), and that this language was "widely spoken not only among Muslims but also among Armenians and Jews". [135] In the Samur region of Dagestan, Azerbaijani became particularly prevalent during the 18th and 19th centuries. [132]
The Caucasian Imamate, also known as the North Caucasus Imamate (Arabic: إمامة شمال القوقاز, romanized: Imāmat Shamal al Qawqāz), was a state established by the imams in Dagestan and Chechnya during the early-to-mid 19th century in the North Caucasus, to fight against the Russian Empire during the Caucasian War, where Russia sought to conquer the Caucasus in order to secure ...