Dagestan
Dagestan yanki ne na Tarayyar Rasha a yankin Caucasus. Sunan ya fito ne daga kalmomin Farisa guda biyu, dag wanda ke nufin tsaunuka, da stan wanda ke nufin ƙasa. Dagestan tana da yawan jama'a kusan miliyan 3, kuma ana kiran mutanenta da sunan Dagestan.  Babban birninta shine Makhachkala.

Mutane 
Dagestan yana da matsayi na "jamhuriya" a Rasha kuma yana da nasa tsarin mulki da harshen sa na hukuma.  Jamhuriya a Rasha gida ne na ƙananan ƙabilu (waɗanda ba Rashawa ba), kuma yawanci kasa daya ko biyu ne ke da mafi yawan al'ummar kowace jamhuriya.  Amma a Dagestan, akwai fiye da ƙasashe 30 daban-daban (mafi girma daga cikinsu shine Avar, Lak, Dargwa, Lezgian, da Tasaran), kuma babu ɗayan waɗannan da ke da rinjaye.  Hakan ya faru ne saboda tsaunukan da ke yankin suna wahalar da jama’a wajen zagayawa.  Wadannan mutane suna magana da harsuna 30 daban-daban, amma suna amfani da Rashanci a matsayin harshensu don sadarwa tsakanin juna.

Mafi yawan mutane a Dagestan Musulmai ne waɗanda suke bin Sunnah a mazhabin Shai'iyya.

Fitattun Mutane 

 Rasul Gamzatov
 Imam Shamil
 Shaykh Said afandi al-Chirkawi
 Khabib Abdulmanapovich Nurmagomedov
 Islam Ramazanovich Makhachev

Majiya 

 Islam in Dagestan
 Official website of Dagestani government  Archived 2011-05-12 at the Wayback Machine

Manazarta 

Mutanen Rasha
Asiya