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Marlow
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Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 13, 2013 - 03:32pm PT
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Dagestan
"The Republic of Dagestan (/dɑːɡɨˈstɑːn/ or /ˈdæɡɨstæn/; Russian: Респу́блика Дагеста́н, Respublika Dagestan; also spelled Daghestan) is a federal subject (a republic) of Russia, located in the North Caucasus region. Its capital and largest city is Makhachkala, located at the center of Dagestan on the Caspian Sea.
With a population of 2,910,249, Dagestan is ethnically very diverse (it is Russia's most heterogeneous republic, where no ethnic group forms a majority) with several dozen ethnic groups and subgroups inhabiting the republic, most of which speak Caucasian and Turkic languages. Largest among these ethnic groups are the Avar, Azerbaijani, Chechen, Dargin, Kumyk, Lezgian, and Laks. Ethnic Russians comprise about 4.5% of Dagestan's total population. Russian is the primary official language and the lingua franca among the ethnic groups.
Dagestan has been a scene of low-level Islamic insurgency, occasional outbreaks of separatism, ethnic tensions and terrorism since the 1990s. According to International Crisis Group, the militant Islamist organization Shariat Jamaat is responsible for much of the violence. Much of the tension is rooted in an internal Islamic conflict between traditional Sufi groups advocating secular government and more recently introduced Salafist teachers preaching the implementation of Sharia law in Dagestan."
"The word Dagestan is of Turkic and Persian origin. Dağ means 'mountain' in Turkic and -stan is a Persian suffix meaning 'land'. The word Dagestan therefore means 'the land of mountains'. Dagestan used to be called Kohestan 'mountainous place' in Persian and Arabized as Ghahestan. When the Persian language gradually faded in those regions and the Turkic language prevailed, the Persian koh (kuh in contemporary Persian) was replaced with its Turkic equivalent dagh. The present city transliterated as Derbent is from the Persian Darband, meaning a point on a mountain that one cannot climb further. In Persian Islamic mysticism Darband is the place where Simorgh (Shahrokh or Phoenix) lives and is the end point and farthest point of the world that man can imagine. Some areas of Dagestan were known as Albania, Avaria, and Tarkov at various times."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagestan
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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 13, 2013 - 04:07pm PT
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Caucasian tur (I'm not sure if this is from the Dagestan region)
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Marlow
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 13, 2013 - 04:39pm PT
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Dargwa wedding in Kubachi
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Dargwa People
"The Dargwa or Dargin people (Dargwa: дарганти, Russian: даргинцы) constitute a Caucasian native ethnic group originating in the North Caucasus, and who make up the second largest ethnic group in the Russian republic of Dagestan. They speak the Dargwa language. The ethnic group comprises, however, all speakers of the Dargin languages; Dargwa is simply the standard variety.
According to the 2002 Census, Dargins make up 16.5% of the population of Dagestan, with 425,526 people.
The Dargins have lived in their present day location for many centuries. They formed the state of Kaitag in the Middle Ages and Renaissance until Russian conquest."
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 13, 2013 - 04:46pm PT
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Dagestan has been a scene of low-level Islamic insurgency
Well, 'low level' compared to their neighbors, yes. It could be a nice place to visit,
some day.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 13, 2013 - 04:51pm PT
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Yes, Reilly, some day... let's paint a picture of this "some day"... parts of the past and even the present contributes when we're painting this picture... have you been there?
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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Dec 13, 2013 - 05:02pm PT
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Daegestan: Where the two sh#t-weasels who bombed the Boston Marathon came from.
Daegestan: Where the local troublemaker islamists are so bad, the high-dollar football team (Anzhi Makhachkala) can't even play home matches. When we (Tottenham) played them in Europa league and on the away leg, they played like 900 miles from home, in a borrowed stadium in Moscow. The players don't even live/train in Makhachkala, they too stay and practice in Moscow, and fly into Makhachkala for Russian league matches.
If the locals won't even live and play there, that's should be a good tip-off to stay away from Daegestan.
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Marlow
Sport climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 13, 2013 - 05:09pm PT
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Elcapinyoazz
You're right about that...
But that's not all there is to Dagestan...
Tioga
Point taken and accepted. The post is deleted...
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Feb 20, 2019 - 07:02pm PT
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hey there, say, marlow...
wow, i missed this...
BUMP!
:)
ALSO, say, a few youtube? etc. links may be missing...
say all this, while looking to see if anyone posted on something
that i was just thinking about...
will go post that, now... :)
say, anymore shares, on this-- i would love to see...
:)
thanks...
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 23, 2019 - 12:21pm PT
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Dagestan blacksmiths 1893
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Kalimon
Social climber
Ridgway, CO
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Feb 23, 2019 - 05:30pm PT
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Nice information as always Marlow!
Too bad Russia doesn't have a three week stage race every year to show us around that beautiful, vast country.
Vladimir, you could make this happen . . . how beautiful it will be! Together we stand, divided we fall.
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