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Makhachkala's historic predecessors were the towns of Tarki and Anji (or Andzhi, or Anji-kala), dating their history, according to some sources, back to Khazar times. Some chronicles suggest that it was the name of a citadel of Khazarian capital of Semender, which was called Anji-kala.
18 apr 2024 · Makhachkala, port and capital of Dagestan republic, southwestern Russia. The city is situated along the western shore of the Caspian Sea, at the northern end of a narrow coastal plain. Founded as the Petrovskoye fortress in 1844, it became Petrovsk Port in 1857 and was renamed in 1921 after the Dagestani revolutionary Makhach.
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Storia. La fortezza Петро́вское ( Petrovskoe ), in onore dello zar Pietro il Grande, che visitò il Daghestan nel 1722, fu fondata nel 1844 sulle rovine della preesistente città di Tarki, antichissimo insediamento ridotto ora a quartiere cittadino.
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the city became the capital of the Republic of Dagestan. Makhachkala is an important economic, educational, scientific, and cultural centre of the North Caucasus. The city is a major Russian seaport on the Caspian Sea, and a transport hub.
23 apr 2024 · The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Last Updated: Apr 23, 2024 • Article History. Dagestan prayer rug from the Caucasus, 1894; in a private collection in New York state. Dagestan, republic in southwestern Russia.
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25 mag 2020 · Historian Sergey Manishev is another human trace of the old city. As an ethnic Russian, his community now makes up less than 2 per cent of the population, down from roughly 30 per cent in the 1980s. “When the USSR fell apart, most of the Russians left,” he says. “The specialists and technicians all just moved back to where they’d come from.
29 ago 2022 · History of Makhachkala. Foundation of Makhachkala. For centuries, the Huns, Persians, and Arabs fought for control over the “Dagestan passage” (the passage through the Caucasus Mountains along the western coast of the Caspian Sea). The village of Tarki, located not far from today’s Makhachkala, played an important role in these events.
