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Caucasian Albania was a vassal of the Roman Empire around 300 AD. Albania is also mentioned by Dionysius Periegetes (2nd or 3rd century AD) who describes Albanians as a nation of warriors, living by the Iberians and the Georgians. [70] In 1899 a silver plate featuring Roman toreutics was excavated near Azerbaijani village of Qalagah.
Work of Kamilla Trever, [26] who made a great contribution to investigation of culture of Caucasian Albania, appeared at that time. Investigations of R.M.Vahidov [27] and Z.I.Yampolski, [28] dedicated to material and religious culture of Caucasian Albania, are also very interesting. The range of questions related to material and religious life ...
The History of the Caucasian Albanians (or The History of the World of Aghvank; Armenian: Պատմութիւն Աղուանից աշխարհի) by Movses Kaghankatvatsi is a history of eastern territories of Armenia (Nagorno-Karabakh and Utik), as well as other territories in Southeastern Caucasus usually described as Caucasian Albania.
Albanian culture or the culture of Albanians (Albanian: kultura shqiptare [kultuˈɾa ʃcipˈtaɾɛ]) is a term that embodies the artistic, culinary, literary, musical, political and social elements that are representative of ethnic Albanians, which implies not just Albanians of the country of Albania but also Albanians of Kosovo, North Macedonia and Montenegro, where ethnic Albanians are a ...
In the 4th century BC, the numerous tribes speaking Lezgic languages united in a union of 26 tribes, formed in the Eastern Caucasus state of Caucasian Albania, which itself was incorporated in the Persian Achaemenid Empire in 513 BC. [14] [15] Under Persian and Parthian rule Caucasian Albania was divided into several areas — Lakzi, Shirvan, etc.
The history of the Caucasus region may be divided by geography into the history of the North Caucasus (Ciscaucasia), historically in the sphere of influence of Scythia and of Southern Russia (Eastern Europe), and that of the South Caucasus (Transcaucasia; Caucasian Albania, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan) in the sphere of influence of Persia ...
Caucasian Albania (Middle Persian: Arān, Ardān, Armenian: Ałuank) was a kingdom in the Caucasus, which was under the suzerainty of the Sasanian Empire from 252 to 636. [3] [4] The name Albania is derived from the Ancient Greek name Ἀλβανία and Latin Albanía. [5] Caucasian Albania should not be confused with European Albania.
That Albanian possesses a rich and "elaborated" pastoral vocabulary which has been taken to suggest Albanian society in post-Roman times was pastoral, with widespread transhumance, and stock-breeding particularly of sheep and goats. [91] Joseph takes interest in the fact that some of the lexemes in question have "exact counterparts" in Romanian ...