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 | | The republic is a geographic concept that has existed since at least the 16th century, and its name, which translates as “the Land of Mountains,” is not derived from any ethnic name, as, for instance, Tatarstan or Bashkor-tostan. |
 | | The republic’s political elite, who were all fighting for shares of the pie, were wary of installing a presidential mode of government, since that would inevitably give an advantage to the president’s ethnic group. |
 | | On June 28, 1992, during a period marked by an escalating struggle for power in the republic’s government and rising separatist trends in the ethnic groups of Kumyks, Nogays, Lezghin and Cossacks, a referendum was held on the question of a presidency in Dagestan. |
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