Definitions for Dagestan

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Dagestan Da·ge·stan

Spelling: [dah-guh-stahn, dag-uh-stan; Dagestan is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 302 anagrams from letters in Dagestan (aadegnst).

Definitions for Dagestan

noun

1. an autonomous republic in the SW Russian Federation on the W shore of the Caspian Sea. 19,421 sq. mi. (50,300 sq. km). Capital: Makhachkala. Formerly Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
2. a closely woven carpet of this region having a floral design and a zigzag border, usually in pastel shades.

Examples for Dagestan

Dagestan, the biggest and most populated republic of the North Caucasus, is a place where insurgents often strike.

The Russians appear to have been satisfied when Plotnikov agreed to leave Dagestan.

The Vilayat Dagestan issued a quasi-denial in the wake of the attack.

But in 1991, as the former Soviet Union broke apart, Chechnya and Dagestan declared their independence from Moscow.

Tamerlan also had begun speaking about kafirs when he came to visit his family in Dagestan in January 2012.

But Plotnikov had no sooner reached Moscow than he headed back to Dagestan.

It was Peter the Great who, in 1722, invaded Dagestan and seized the greater part of this territory.

Last year militants killed 62 security officials in Dagestan; this year another 34 officials have died in various attacks.

Both men had emigrated from Russia in their teens, Tamerlan from Dagestan to Cambridge, Plotnikov from Siberia to Toronto.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the elder brother, is known to have traveled to Dagestan for several months in 2012.