Dagestan
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The Republic o Dagestan (/[unsupported input]dɑːɡᵻˈstɑːn/ or /dæɡᵻˈstæn/; Roushie: Респу́блика Дагеста́н, Respublika Dagestan; an aw spelt Daghestan) is a federal subject (a republic) o Roushie, locatit in the North Caucasus region. Its caipital an the lairgest ceety is Makhachkala, locatit at the centre o Dagestan on the Caspian Sea. Population: 2,910,249 (2010 Census).[7]
Republic o Dagestan | |
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Республика Дагестан | |
Anthem: Naitional Anthem o the Republic o Dagestan | |
Coordinates: 43°06′N 46°53′E | |
Kintra | Roushie |
Federal destrict | North Caucasian[1] |
Economic region | North Caucasus[2] |
Established | 10 Januar 1921[3] |
Caipital | Makhachkala |
Govrenment | |
• Bodi | Fowkassembly[4] |
• Preses[4] | Magomedsalam Magomedov[5] |
Area | |
• Total | 50300 km2 (19,400 sq mi) |
Area rank | 52nt |
Population (2010 Census)[7] | |
• Total | 2,910,249 |
• Estimate (2018)[8] | 3,063,885 (+5.3%) |
• Rank | 12t |
• Density | 58/km2 (150/sq mi) |
• Urban | 45.2% |
• Rural | 54.8% |
Time zone | UTC+3 (Moscow Time [9]) |
ISO 3166 code | RU-DA |
License plates | 05 |
OKTMO ID | 82000000 |
Offeecial leids | Roushie;[10] Aghul, Avar, Azeri, Chechen, Dargwa, Kumyk, Lak, Lezgian, Nogai, Rutul, Tabasaran, Tat, Tsakhur[11][12] |
Website | http://www.e-dag.ru/ |
Dagestan is ethnically vera diverse, wi several dozen ethnic groups an subgroups inhabitin the republic, maist o which speak aither Caucasian, Turkic, or Iranian leids. Lairgest amang thir ethnic groups are the Avar, Dargin, Kumyk, Lezgin, an Laks.[13] While Roushies form anerlie a sma proportion (4.7%) o the population, Roushie remains the primary offeecial leid.
Dagestan haes been a scene o law-level Islamic insurgency, occasional ootbreaks o separatism, ethnic tensions an terrorism syne the 1990s. Accordin tae International Crisis Group, the militant Islamist organisation Shariat Jamaat is responsible for hintle o the violence.[14] Hintle o the tension is ruitit in an internal Islamic conflict atween traditional Sufi groups advocatin secular govrenment an mair recently introducit Salafist teachers preachin the implementation o Sharia law in Dagestan.