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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.
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 ]
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.
Caucasian Albania — a historical satropy that was within present day Azerbaijan. Subcategories. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. C.
The existence of the Caucasian Albanian literature was known only indirectly before the late 20th century. Koryun's Life of Mashtots, written in the 5th century but only surviving in much later corrupted manuscripts, and Movses Kaghankatvatsi's History of the Caucasian Albanians, written in the 10th century, attribute the conversion of the Caucasian Albanians to Christianity to two ...
Arts of Caucasian Albania – is the historical and regional type of arts related to Ancient East. Investigation of archeological material favours the restoration picture of development of arts in Caucasian Albania. Arts of the Middle Ages was protensity of previous periods of creative development of masters of Caucasian Albania. [3]
The Church of Albania or the Albanian Apostolic Church was an ancient, briefly autocephalous church established in the 5th century. [1] [2] In 705, it fell under the religious jurisdiction of the Armenian Apostolic Church as the Catholicosate of Aghvank [3] centered in Caucasian Albania, a region spanning present-day northern Azerbaijan and southern Dagestan.
Map of Caucasian Albania. The Treaty of Nisibis in 299 between the Sasanian King of Kings Narseh (r. 293–303) and the Roman emperor Diocletian had ended disastrously for the Sasanians, who ceded them huge chunks of their territory, including the Caucasian kingdoms of Armenia and Iberia. [2]