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  • proper noun A member of an ethnic group who live in southern Dagestan and northern Azerbaijan.

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  • Political pressure groups and leaders: Sadval, Lezgin movement; self-proclaimed Armenian Nagorno-Karabakh Republic; Talysh independence movement

    The 2001 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency

  • Political pressure groups and leaders: Sadval, Lezgin movement; self-proclaimed Armenian Nagorno-Karabakh Republic; Talysh independence movement

    The 2000 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency

  • Sadval, Lezgin movement; self-proclaimed Armenian Nagorno-Karabakh

    The 2004 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency

  • Sadval, Lezgin movement; self-proclaimed Armenian Nagorno-Karabakh

    The 2007 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency

  • Sadval, Lezgin movement; self-proclaimed Armenian Nagorno-Karabakh

    The 2005 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency

  • When Vladimir Radchenko, the appointee, was able to show up for work, he was abducted - briefly, but long enough to convince decision makers in Moscow that the best candidate for the job was a Lezgin, after all.

    NYT > Home Page By ELLEN BARRY 2010

  • Movement was responsible for a number of terrorist strikes in the 1990s and 2001 but has been relatively inactive since, never having gained popular support in the Lezgin community.

    Jamestown Foundation: All Publications 2008

  • Lezgins form the vast majority in the region, where the Lezgin community was split from its Dagestani Lezgin counterparts by the creation of an international border between Dagestan and Azerbaijan in 1991.

    Jamestown Foundation: All Publications 2008

  • Nabi Nabiev, a Lezgin from Azerbaijan, was the right hand of Rappani Khalilov, who was the leader of the rebels in Dagestan.

    Jamestown Foundation: All Publications 2008

  • AzerbaijanSadval, Lezgin movement; self-proclaimed Armenian Nagorno-Karabakh Republic; Talysh independence movement; Union of Pro-Azerbaijani Forces (UPAF); Karabakh Liberation Organization

    Political pressure groups and leaders 2008

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