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Dagestan

Dagestan is the most culturally diverse republic in the Caucasus, and at the Caspian Gates between and Europe has been of historic significance since antiquity.
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is the capital city of Dagestan and the largest city in the . It is one of the fastest growing cities in Russia and has a population of approximately 595,000.

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is a city in Dagestan on the Caspian Sea. It dates back to the 8th century BCE and is a UNESCO World Heritage site. It is the location of the mythical "Gates of Alexander," and easily one of the most impressive historical sites in .

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is a city of 116,000 on the Caspian Sea, 18 km southeast of Makhachkala in Dagestan. The center of retains the appearance of a Soviet industrial city with a slight touch of a resort: it stands on the sea, and there is a lot of greenery on the streets.

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is a town of almost 50,000 people in Dagestan on the border with the Chechen Republic. It is in the delta of the Terek River 221 km northwest of Makhachkala, the capital of the republic.

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is a small city of some 60,000 people on the coast of the Caspian Sea in Dagestan between and . It is known as a city of oil workers, but it is developing into a resort and recreation center on the shores of the Caspian Sea.

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is a beautiful mountain village of about 15,000 people with a historic quarter and museum in Dagestan. It is one of the important cultural and tourist centers of Dagestan. Tourists are attracted generally by tue healing mineral springs.

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or Gimry is a mountain village of 5,100 people in Dagestan. Gimry is distinguished by a rich history, a variety of historical and natural sites, distinctive traditions and unique natural and climatic resources.

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is a mountain town in southern Dagestan, famous for the pottery named after it.

is a rural locality in , Republic of Dagestan, Russia. Population: 2,711 ; 2,005 ; 1,298 . There are 23 streets in this selo.

Dagestan

Latitude of center
43° north
Longitude of center
47° east
Population
3,180,000
Elevation
708 metres (2,323 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 10725090310
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
567293
Wiki­data ID
Q5118
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Yue Chinese—“Dagestan” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Даҕьесҭан Аҳәынҭқарра”
  • Achinese: “Republik Dagestan”
  • Afrikaans: “Dagestan”
  • Albanian: “Dagestani”
  • Amharic: “ዳገስታን”
  • Arabic: “داغستان”
  • Armenian: “Դաղստան”
  • Armenian: “Դաղստանի Հանրապետություն”
  • Asturian: “Daguestán”
  • Asturian: “República de Daguestán”
  • Avaric: “Дагъистан”
  • Azerbaijani: “Dağıstan Respublikası”
  • Azerbaijani: “Dağıstan”
  • Bashkir: “Дағстан”
  • Basque: “Dagestan”
  • Belarusian: “Дагестан”
  • Bengali: “দাগেস্তান”
  • Bosnian: “Dagestan”
  • Breton: “Dagestan”
  • Bulgarian: “Дагестан”
  • Catalan: “Daguestan”
  • Cebuano: “Dagestan”
  • Central Kurdish: “داغستان”
  • Chechen: “ДегӀаста”
  • Chinese: “Dagestan”
  • Chinese: “达吉斯坦”
  • Chinese: “达吉斯坦共和国”
  • Chinese: “達吉斯坦”
  • Chinese: “達吉斯坦共和國”
  • Chuvash: “Дагестан Республики”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Dağıstan”
  • Croatian: “Dagestan”
  • Czech: “Dagestán”
  • Czech: “Dagestánská republika”
  • Czech: “Republika Dagestán”
  • Danish: “Dagestan”
  • Danish: “Republikken Dagestan”
  • Dargwa: “Дагъистан Республика”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Dağıstan”
  • Dutch: “Dagestan”
  • Eastern Mari: “Дагестан”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “داجستان”
  • Erzya: “Дагестан Республикась”
  • Esperanto: “Dagestano”
  • Estonian: “Dagestan”
  • Estonian: “Dagestani Vabariik”
  • Finnish: “Dagestan”
  • French: “Dagestan”
  • French: “Daghestan”
  • French: “Daguestan”
  • French: “République de Daghestan”
  • Gagauz: “Dagestan”
  • Gagauz: “Dagıstan”
  • Galician: “Daguestán”
  • Galician: “Дагестан”
  • Georgian: “დაღესტანი”
  • Georgian: “დაღესტნის რესპუბლიკა”
  • German: “Dagestan”
  • German: “Republik Dagestan”
  • Gothic: “𐌳𐌰𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽”
  • Gothic: “𐌳𐌰𐌲𐌴𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽”
  • Greek: “Δημοκρατία του Νταγκεστάν”
  • Greek: “Νταγκεστάν”
  • Gujarati: “રિપબ્લિક ઓફ ડૅગેસ્ટન”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Dagestan Khiung-fò-koet”
  • Hausa: “Dagestan”
  • Hebrew: “דאגסטן”
  • Hebrew: “דגסטן”
  • Hindi: “दाग़िस्तान गणतंत्र”
  • Hindi: “दाग़िस्तान”
  • Hungarian: “Dagesztán”
  • Icelandic: “Dagestan”
  • Ido: “Republiko Dagestan”
  • Indonesian: “Dagestan”
  • Ingush: “ДаьгIасте”
  • Ingush: “ДаьгӀасте”
  • Interlingue: “Dagestan”
  • Inupiaq: “Dagestan”
  • Inupiaq: “Tagistan”
  • Irish: “an Dagastáin”
  • Irish: “An Dagastáin”
  • Italian: “Daghestan”
  • Japanese: “ダゲスタン (ロシア)#歴史”
  • Japanese: “ダゲスタン共和国”
  • Javanese: “Dagestan”
  • Kabardian: “Дагъыстэн”
  • Kabardian: “Республикэ Дагъыстэн”
  • Kalmyk: “Дагъсин таңһч”
  • Kannada: “ಡಾಗೆಸ್ತಾನ್ನ ಗಣರಾಜ್ಯ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Dagestan”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Daǵıstan”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Дагъыстан”
  • Kashubian: “Dagestan”
  • Kazakh: “Дағыстан”
  • Kirghiz: “Дагстан”
  • Komi: “Дагестан”
  • Korean: “다게스탄 공화국”
  • Kumyk: “Дагъыстан Джумгьурият”
  • Kurdish: “Daxistan”
  • Lak: “Дагъусттан”
  • Lao: “ດາເກສະຖານ”
  • Latin: “Daghestania”
  • Latvian: “Dagestāna”
  • Latvian: “Dagestānas Republika”
  • Lezghian: “Дагъустан”
  • Ligurian: “Daghestan”
  • Ligurian: “Daghestàn”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Republica de Dagestan”
  • Lithuanian: “Dagestanas”
  • Lombard: “Daghestan”
  • Low German: “Dagestan”
  • Luxembourgish: “Dagestan”
  • Macedonian: “Дагестан”
  • Malagasy: “Dagestàna”
  • Malay: “Dagestan”
  • Malayalam: “ദാഗസ്താൻ”
  • Marathi: “दागिस्तान प्रजासत्ताक”
  • Marathi: “दागिस्तान”
  • Mazanderani: “داغستون”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Dagestan”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Dagestan”
  • Mingrelian: “დაღესტანი”
  • Mongolian: “Дагестан”
  • Northern Frisian: “Dagestaan”
  • Northern Sami: “Dagestan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dagestan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dagestan”
  • Norwegian: “Dagestan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Daguestan”
  • Ossetian: “Дагъистан”
  • Ossetian: “Дагъыстан”
  • Pampanga: “Dagestan”
  • Panjabi: “ਦਾਗਿਸਤਾਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Dagestan”
  • Persian: “داغستان”
  • Polish: “Dagestan”
  • Polish: “Republika Dagestanu”
  • Portuguese: “Daguestão”
  • Pushto: “داغستان جمهوريت”
  • Quechua: “Lakhisuyu”
  • Romanian: “Dagestan”
  • Romanian: “Daghestan”
  • Russia Buriat: “Дагестаан Республика”
  • Russia Buriat: “Дагестан”
  • Russian: “Дагестан”
  • Russian: “Республика Дагестан”
  • Scots: “Dagestan”
  • Serbian: “Дагестан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dagestan”
  • Sicilian: “Daghestan”
  • Silesian: “Dagestōn”
  • Silesian: “Republika Dagestanu”
  • Sindhi: “داغستان”
  • Sinhala: “ඩගේස්ටාන් ජනරජය”
  • Slovak: “Dagestan”
  • Slovenian: “Dagestan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “داغیستان”
  • Spanish: “Daguestán”
  • Sundanese: “Dagéstan”
  • Swahili: “Dagestan”
  • Swedish: “Dagestan”
  • Tabassaran: “Дагъустан Республика”
  • Tagalog: “Dagestan”
  • Tajik: “Доғистон”
  • Talysh: “Dağıston”
  • Talysh: “Daǧystan”
  • Tamil: “குடியரசு ஆப் டாஜ்ஸ்தான்”
  • Tamil: “தாகெஸ்தான்”
  • Tatar: “Дагстан Республикасы”
  • Tatar: “Дагстан”
  • Telugu: “రిపబ్లిక్ ఆఫ్ డాగెస్తాన్”
  • Thai: “ดาเกสถาน”
  • Thai: “สาธารณรัฐดาเกสตาน”
  • Thai: “สาธารณรัฐดาเกสถาน”
  • Turkish: “Dağıstan”
  • Turkmen: “Dagystan”
  • Udmurt: “Дагестан”
  • Uighur: “داغىستان”
  • Ukrainian: “Дагестан”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Dagestan”
  • Urdu: “داغستان”
  • Uzbek: “Dogʻiston”
  • Veps: “Dagestanan Tazovaldkund”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hoà Dagestan”
  • Vietnamese: “Dagestan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Dagestan”
  • Welsh: “Dagestan”
  • Western Panjabi: “داغستان”
  • Wu Chinese: “达吉斯坦共和国”
  • Yakut: “Дагестаан”
  • Yue Chinese: “達吉斯坦”
  • “Daghestan”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Dagestan”. Photo: Аль-Гимравий, CC BY-SA 4.0.