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Dagestan ( / ˌdæɡɪˈstæn, - ˈstɑːn / DAG-ə-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 Federal ...
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 .
The Tukhchar massacre ( Russian: Тухчарская резня, romanized : Tukhcharskaya reznya) was an incident during the War in Dagestan which was filmed and distributed on tape, in which Russian prisoners of war were executed. Throughout the battle, Russian soldiers reported finding taped executions of Russian officers and men. [1]
The Avars, also known as Maharuls ( Avar: магӀарулал, [5] [6] [7] maⱨarulal, "mountaineers"), are a Northeast Caucasian ethnic group. The Avars are the largest of several ethnic groups living in the Russian republic of Dagestan. [8] The Avars reside in the North Caucasus between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.
Mukhu Aliyev. Salary. $ 15,000 (2018) Website. president.e-dag.ru. The Head of the Republic of Dagestan is the highest official and the head of the executive power of the Republic of Dagestan. The Head is Dagestan’s Head of State and Head of Government. The Head of Dagestan’s duty is to ensure compliance with the Russian Constitution and ...
On 5 October 2020, the powers were terminated as Melikov, by decree of the President of Russia, was appointed Acting Head of the Republic of Dagestan. On 14 October 2021, the parliament of Dagestan elected him as the 5th Head of Dagestan. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Hero of Russia Foundation Colonel General Anatoly Romanov.
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. This "Land of Mountains" was known also for having a "mountain of peoples," with more ...
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 . When Russia annexed Georgia in 1801, it needed to ...