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See also: Russian Federation
Full name: Republic of Daghestan.
Location: Northern Caucasus.
Status: A constituent republic of the Russian Federation.
Notes: This territory, which is roughly the same size as the independent
states of Armenia and Georgia, was turbulant throughout Tsarist times due
to the opposition of its mainly Islamic inhabitants to Christian rule. The
Soviets created the Daghestan ASSR in 1920. Trivial fact: Daghestan was the
only Soviet territory named after a geographical region rather than an
ethnic group.
stuart notholt