Dagestan
Proper noun
Meaning
Dagestan
A Russian republic in the Caucasus region.
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Examples
According to various figures, 10-15 percent of Russia's population are Muslims, the number of Muslims in Ingushetia, Chechnya, Dagestan accounts for 90 percent.
His murder follows "similar religiously motivated killings" in Dagestan and regions of ex-Soviet Central Asia, targeting religious leaders—not necessarily Sufi—who disapprove of violent jihad.
Dagestan was too dangerous, Chechnya too dangerous, she sent her kids here to be safe, and look what this country did to them.
The largest share of Russian car brands in the North Caucasus (e.g. Dagestan and Chechnya ).
Kamalov, founder of a newspaper in Russia's North Caucasus critical of authorities, was gunned down outside his office in Makhachkala, capital of the Dagestan region, in December 2011.
Some clerics in Dagestan have defended the practice.