In 1722 Peter the Great began his Persian campaign along the Caspian coast, occupying Derbent and Baku. |
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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. |
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He travelled down the Volga River, and reached Derbent, then Baku and later Persia proper by crossing the Caspian Sea. |
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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. |
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Near the city of Derbent, the men ran into a Russian roadblock. |
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Despite initial setbacks, they managed to recover Derbent and eventually penetrated as far south as Caucasian Iberia, Caucasian Albania and Armenia. |
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