Dagestan (rus)

Dagestan

Dagestan ranks 15,720th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Kafr El Dawwar, Dorchester on Thames, and Coachella Valley. Memorable people born in Dagestan include Gamzat-bek. Memorable people who died in Dagestan include Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin, and Ruslan Gelayev. Dagestan has been the birth place of many religious figures and the death place of many physicians, and military personnels. Dagestan is located in Russia.

Dagestan, officially the Republic of Dagestan, is a republic of Russia situated in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe, along the Caspian Sea. It is located north of the Greater Caucasus, and is a part of the North Caucasian Federal District. The republic is the southernmost tip of Russia, sharing land borders with the countries of Azerbaijan and Georgia to the south and southwest, the Russian republics of Chechnya and Kalmykia to the west and north, and with Stavropol Krai to the northwest. Makhachkala is the republic's capital and largest city; other major cities are Derbent, Kizlyar, Izberbash, Kaspiysk, and Buynaksk. Read more on Wikipedia