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Dagestan , officially the Republic of Dagestan , is a federal subject of Russia, located in the North Caucasus region. Its capital and largest city is Makhachkala, centrally located on the Caspian Sea coast. With a population of 2,910,249, Dagestan is very ethnically diverse and Russia's most heterogeneous republic, with the largest ethnicity constituting less than 30% of the population. Largest among the ethnicities are the Avar, Dargin, Kumyk, Lezgian, Laks, Azerbaijani, Tabasaran, and Chechen. Ethnic Russians comprise about 3.6% of Dagestan's total population. Russian is the primary official language and the lingua franca among the ethnicities. Dagestan has been a scene of Islamic insurgency, occasional outbreaks of separatism, and ethnic tension since the 1990s. According to the 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 ...

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00:01:51 Toponymy
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00:05:05 Alternating Persian and Russian rule
00:06:55 Russian rule consolidated
00:07:44 Risings against imperial Russia
00:08:31 Soviet era
00:10:04 Post-Soviet era
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00:12:56 Demographics
00:13:18 Ethnicities
00:14:26 Languages
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