The Avar of Russian Federation, numbering approximately 912,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are the largest indigenous people of Dagestan in Russia's North Caucasus, whose Avar Khanate ruled the region's mountains from its capital at Khunzakh from the 1200s until Russian authority replaced it in the early 1800s, abolished after the Caucasian War. They mostly adhere to Sunni Islam and Avaric is their primary language.