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Caucasian Rugs: Guide to Antique Dagestan Rugs

 

Antique Dagestan Rugs Dagestan is now the southern edge of Russia abutting Azerbaijan. It is not a significant producer of rugs today. But that was not always the case. After the coming of Genghis Khan the Mongol empire was split between the sons and their descendents. Dagestan was in the Il-Khanid land while everything to the north went to the Golden Horde. The Il-Khanids became increasingly Persian and the Greater Caucasus were part of the Greater Persian Empire.

Derbend was in the lowlands and was primarily Lezgi and Azeri while to the west was old Dagestan which has a variety of Northern Caucasian peoples. The region was Persian from the 13th to the 19th century and the rugs f the region should be seen in that light.

 

Dagestan Rugs: Traditional Dagestan Dress: Dagestan was the scene of a long bitter war when the Russians invaded and the Persians lacked the ability to resist. The people of Daghestan rose up and fought the Russians for more than thirty five years. There is not a Daghestan people as such but a wide range of ethnic groups that wove rugs. We do know that the war resulted in many of the inhabitants moving to modern day Turkey and Iran.

Daghestan

Derbend

 Antique Dagestan Rugs
Dagestan Rugs: An unusual Derbend long rug Armenian and Turkish Inscriptions.

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Thanks and best wishes,

J. Barry O'Connell Jr.

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