Derbent

American  

[der-bent, dyir-byent] / dərˈbɛnt, dyɪrˌbyɛnt /

noun

1. a seaport in the SE Dagestan Autonomous Republic, in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Caspian Sea.

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Derbent British  

/ dɪrˈbjɛnt /

noun

1. a port in S Russia, in the Dagestan Republic on the Caspian Sea: founded by the Persians in the 6th century. Pop: 106 000 (2005 est)

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Example Sentences

With row after row of gravestones engraved with the Star of David or portraits and pictures of the dead, Derbent's Jewish cemetery gives an indication of how large this coastal city's Jewish population once was.

From Reuters

The community, which was centred around a synagogue in central Derbent, numbered 13,000 in 1989, two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union, but has since shrunk to just hundreds of people.

From Reuters

"Such things upset us a lot," said Zoya Solomonova, who now lives in St Petersburg but recalled growing up in a neighbourhood of Derbent where she said Russians, Jews, Azerbaijanis and others all got along.

From Reuters

An ancient walled city straddling a narrow pass between the Caucasus mountains and the Caspian Sea, Derbent still continues to play host to one of the country's oldest Jewish communities though.

From Reuters

One of a string of enclaves of so-called Mountain Jews that pepper both Russia's Caucasus and neighbouring Azerbaijan, Derbent's Jews still speak a dialect of Persian that evokes their hometown's rich history.

From Reuters