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What does Derbent mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Derbent? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. A city in Dagestan, Russia.
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About 320 homes in the Caspian Sea coastal city of Derbent close to the Caucasus Mountains were flooded and seven bodies were found, Reuters reported.
The policemen died, together with six of the fighters, in an exchange of gunfire outside a house near the city of Derbent on the Caspian Sea.
In 1796 Derbent was besieged by the Russians, and in 1813 incorporated with the Russian empire.
Near the city of Derbent, the men ran into a Russian roadblock.
In 1722 Peter the Great began his Persian campaign along the Caspian coast, occupying Derbent and Baku.

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