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Dagestan
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Da·ge·stan  (däg-stän, dg-stn)
An autonomous republic of southwest Russia bordering on the Caspian Sea. Settled in the first millennium b.c., it was ceded to Russia by Persia in 1813.

Dage·stani (-stän, -stn) adj. & n.


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They are Tatarstan in the Central Volga region, the Crimean peninsula and other parts of Ukraine, Daghestan and Azerbaijan in the Caucasus, and Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in Central Asia.
The officer was reacting to a report published by RIA Novosti, the Russian news agency, on Thursday quoting the Federal Security Service as saying that "border guards in the southern Russian republic of Daghestan have detained two people on charges of attempting to sell two girls into sex slavery in Bahrain".
Other candidates in the Oddest Book Title competition include How Green Were the Nazis, The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification, Tattoed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan, Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Seaweed Symposium and Better Never To Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence.
 
 
 
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