Caucasian Albanie
(Reguidit frae Scythie)
Albania (Laitin: Albānia, Greek: [Ἀλβανία, Albanía] error: {{lang}}: text has italic markup (help),[4] in Auld Armenie: Աղուանք Ałuankʿ (Aguank),[5] Parthian: Ardhan, Middle Persie: Arran; uisually referred tae as Caucasian Albania for disambiguation wi the modren state o Albanie; the native name for the kintra is unkent[6][7]) is a name for the historical region o the eastren Caucasus, that existit on the territory o present-day republic o Azerbaijan (whaur baith o its caipitals wur located) an pairtially soothren Dagestan.
Caucasian Albanie | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2nt century BC – AD 8t century | |||||||||
 Borders o Caucasian Albanie (reid dashed line) | |||||||||
| Status | Territory, Kinrick, Vassal Kinrick an Satrapy during the Parthian an Sassanid empires | ||||||||
| Caipital | Kabalak, Partav | ||||||||
| Common leids | Caucasian Albanie, Armenie, Parthie leid,[1] Middle Persie[2][3] | ||||||||
| Releegion | Paganism, Christianity, Zoroastrianism | ||||||||
| Historical era | Antiquity | ||||||||
• Established | 4t century BC | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 8t century | ||||||||
| |||||||||
| The day pairt o |  Azerbaijan Russia | ||||||||
ReferencesEedit
- ↑ Toumanoff, Cyril. The Arsacids. Encyclopædia Iranica. excerpt:"Whatever the sporadic suzerainty of Rome, the country was now a part—together with Iberia (East Georgia) and (Caucasian) Albania, where other Arsacid branched reigned—of a pan-Arsacid family federation. Culturally, the predominance of Hellenism, as under the Artaxiads, was now followed by a predominance of “Iranianism,” and, symptomatically, instead of Greek, as before, Parthian became the language of the educated"
- ↑ Shnirelman, V.A.(2001), 'The value of the Past: Myths, Identity and Politics in Transcaucasia', Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology. pp 79: "Yet, even at the time of Caucasian Albania and later on, as well, the region was greatly affected by Iran and Persian enjoyed even more success than the Albanian language".
- ↑ Benjamin W. Fortson, "Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction", John Wiley and Sons, 2009. pg 242: " Middle Persian was the official language of the Sassanian dynasty"
- ↑ James Stuart Olson. An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of the Russian and Soviet Empires. ISBN 0-313-27497-5
- ↑ the grapheme ł is variously transcribed as l, g, and gh, resulting in variations Aluan/Alvan, Aguan/Agvan, and Aghuan/Aghvan (translations by K.Patkanian 1861, Sh.В. Smbatian 1984, A.A.Akopian 1987, et al
- ↑ Robert H. Hewsen. "Ethno-History and the Armenian Influence upon the Caucasian Albanians", in: Samuelian, Thomas J. (Ed.), Classical Armenian Culture. Influences and Creativity. Chicago: 1982, pp. 27-40.
- ↑ Bosworth, Clifford E. Arran. Encyclopædia Iranica.