page_title: Dagestan
section_title: Uprisings against imperial Russia
hierarchical_section_title: Dagestan / History / Uprisings against imperial Russia
caption_attribution_description: English: Muslim man decorated with military medal, wearing traditional dress and headgear, with a sheathed dagger at his side. Dagestan.Español: Hombre musulmán de Daguestán decorado con una medalla militar, vistiendo su uniforme y gorro tradicionales, con una daga a su lado. Русский: Житель Дагестана
context_page_description: 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. Russian is the primary official language and the lingua franca among the ethnicities. Largest among the ethnicities are the Russian, Avar, Dargin, Kumyk, Lezgian, Laks, Azerbaijani, Tabasaran, Rutuls, Tats, Tsakhurs, Noghai, Aghul and Chechen. The republic’s chief cities are Makhachkala, Derbent, Kizlyar, Izberbash, Kaspiysk and Buynaksk.
context_section_description: The Russian administration, however, disappointed and embittered the highlanders. The institution of heavy taxation, coupled with the expropriation of estates and the construction of fortresses (including Makhachkala), electrified highlanders into rising under the aegis of the Muslim Imamate of Dagestan, led by Ghazi Mohammed (1828–32), Gamzat-bek (1832–34) and Shamil (1834–59). This Caucasian War raged until 1864.
  Dagestan and Chechnya profited from the Russo-Turkish War (1877–78), to rise together against imperial Russia for the last time (Chechnya rose again at various times throughout the late 19th and 20th centuries).
caption: Dagestani man, photographed by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, circa 1907 to 1915.
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