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Tarki
Tarki is a historic Kumyk settlement on the Caspian coast of Dagestan, now a district of the city of Makhachkala. From the 17th century until 1867 it was the seat of the shamkhals of Tarki, who controlled the coastal plain on the route between Russia and Persia. Peter the Great visited it during his Persian campaign of 1722.
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