Dagestan Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
republic of Russia
About Dagestan
Dagestan shares with its Caucasian neighbours the towering mountains of the Greater Caucasus, rushing Caucasian rivers, and spectacularly situated stone auls, mountaintop villages. But in an already diverse region, Dagestan is a wonderland of ethnic and cultural diversity. About 35 separate ethnolinguistic groups live in thisScotland-sized republic and the region contains an amazing 12 language families. For all this cultural diversity, Dagestanis are fairly united in their Islamic religion — virtually all non-Russian ethnic groups are Muslim. This is probably true since almost 32,000 people have left in a mass exit from Dagestan since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Many of those people were the Mountain Jews, Juhuro, who spoke Persian or one of its dialects.
Top Attractions in Dagestan
Explore the best things to see and do in Dagestan:
- ★Akhoulgo Historical Complex
- ★Centre of Traditional National Culture
- ★Datuna Church
- ★Gamzat Tsadasa Memorial Literature Museum
- ★Kakhib
- ★Khunzakh Museum of History and Local Lore
- ★Khunzakhskaya Krepost
- ★Towers of Goor
Dagestan Travel Guide Sections
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