Caucasian Albania
Albania (usually called Caucasian Albania is name is for the historical region of the eastern Caucasus. The native name for the country is unknown.[2][3] It was on the land of present-day Azerbaijan and partially southern Dagestan.
Caucasian Albania | |||||||||
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| 4th century BC – 8th century AD | |||||||||
![Borders of Arsacid kingdom Caucasian Albania (late 4th century) in the Sassanid empie[1]](/wiki/File:Ancient_countries_of_Transcaucasia.jpg) Borders of Arsacid kingdom Caucasian Albania (late 4th century) in the Sassanid empie[1] | |||||||||
| Capital | Kabalak, Partav | ||||||||
| Common languages | Caucasian Albanian, Armenian, Parthian language, Middle Persian | ||||||||
| Religion | Paganism, Christianity, Zoroastrianism | ||||||||
| Historical era | Antiquity | ||||||||
• | 4th century BC | ||||||||
• | 8th century | ||||||||
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| Today part of |  Azerbaijan Russia | ||||||||
Caucasian Albania Media
1838 map: Colchis, Iberia and Albania
A column capital with an Albanian inscription from a 7th-century church in Mingachevir (Azerbaijan State Museum of History)
The ruins of the gates of the Albanian capital Qabala
Roman inscription in Gobustan, Baku, left by Legio XII Fulminata
Caucasian Albania was a vassal of the Roman Empire around 300 AD.
Armenian monk Mesrop Mashtots invented the Gargarean ("Caucasian Albanian") alphabet in the 5th century, after creating the Armenian script (art by Francesco Maggiotto, 1750–1805).
Amaras Monastery in Karabagh, where in the 5th century Mesrob Mashtots set up the first school to use his Armenian alphabet
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References
- ↑ M. L. Chaumont, "ALBANIA" in Encyclopaedia Iranica. The Sasanian period. In about A.D. 252-53 Šāpūr I made himself lord of Great Armenia, which was turned into a Sasanian province; Iberia and Albania were also soon conquered and annexed.
- ↑ 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.
