Dagestan

[dah-guh-stahn, dag-uh-stan, duh-gyi-stahn]

noun

1. Formerly Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. an autonomous republic in the SW Russian Federation on the W shore of the Caspian Sea. 19,421 sq. mi. (50,300 sq. km). Makhachkala.

2. a closely woven carpet of this region having a floral design and a zigzag border, usually in pastel shades.

Example Sentences

"I don't think Usman will have a choice. I think Khabib will have taken him back to the mountains in Dagestan after that first fight and absolutely put him through the ringer," he said.

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It had already halted flights to Grozny and Makhachkala in neighbouring Dagestan, but has now added the cities of Sochi, Volgograd, Ufa, Samara and Mineralnye Vody.

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In a windswept corner we came across a woman willing to talk - Saida Temirbulatova, 47, a former tax inspector from Dagestan.

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Conor McGregor, the brash, arrogant former champion from Ireland, baited his nemesis, Khabib Nurmagomedov—a stoic generational talent from Dagestan—by personally insulting him and his family with Islamophobic remarks.

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Her first husband died after a couple of months, then she married a man from Dagestan and had his child.

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