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 2) According to Strabo, both Armenia and Albania had provinces named Caspiane (just as both Greece and Yugoslavia had provinces named Macedonia). 

 Strabo: 

 (on linguistic/ethnic homogenity of the provinces conquered in 189 BC, including Armenia's Caspiane) 

 According to report, Armenia, though a small country in earlier times, was enlarged by Artaxias and Zariadris, who formerly were generals of Antiochus the Great, but later, after his defeat, reigned as kings (the former as king of Sophene, Acisene, Odomantis, and certain other countries, and the latter as king of the country round Artaxata), and jointly enlarged their kingdoms by cutting off for themselves parts of the surrounding nations,I mean by cutting off Caspiane and Phaunitis and Basoropeda from the country of the Medes; and the country along the side of Mt. Paryadres and Chorsene and Gogarene, which last is on the far side of the Cyrus River, from that of the Iberians; and Carenitis and Xerxene, which border on Lesser Armenia or else are parts of it, from that of the Chalybians and the Mosynoeci; and Acilisene and the country round the Antitaurus from that of the Cataonians; and Taronitis from that of the Syrians; and therefore they all speak the same language, as we are told. 

 http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0198&loc;=11.14.1 

  
 (on linguistic diversity of Albania) 

 They have twenty-six languages, because of the fact that they have no easy means of intercourse with one another. 

 http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0198&loc;=11.4.1 

  
 (On the boundary of Albania and Armenia in Strabo's time (1st c BC) ) 

 The frontier along the Kura (Kor), affirmed by Strabo (Geography 11.14.5), was repeatedly overrun, to the advantage sometimes of the Albanians, sometimes of the Armenians. 

 http://www.iranica.com/newsite/articles/v1f8/v1f8a022.html 

  
 (Armenia's Kaspiene (Paytakaran) lying below river Kura) 

 Robert Hewsen, ""Historical Geography of Armenia,"" Map of Armenia in the 4th c. http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Images/Chicago/hewsen62.gif 

  
 Iranica 

 (The area of Caspian tribesi.e. Caspienepotentially on both sides of Kura (as opposed to Paytakaran itself)) 

 CASPIANS (Gk. Ka‚spioi), name of an ancient people dwelling along the southwestern shore of the Caspian Sea, whether north or south of the river Kura is not clear. 

 http://www.iranica.com/newsite/articles/v5f1/v5f1a019.html 

  
 Pliny the Elder (1st c AD), ""The Natural history "", 6.39:  

 (Kura continuing to be the boundary in 1st c AD) 

 ""..the tribe of Albanians settled on the Caucasian mountains, reaches ... the river Kir making border of Armenia and Iberia""  

  
 Claudius Ptolemy (2nd c AD), ""Geography"" 5.12:  

 (Kura continuing to be the boundary in 2nd c AD) 

 ""Armenia is located from the north to a part of Colchida, Iberia and Albania along the line, which goes through the river Kir (Kura)""  

  
 Movses Khorenatsi (5th c AD), ""History of Armenia"" 

 (On Paytakaran belonging to Armenia in early 4th c. AD.) 

 Трдат проявлял великую твердость в деле под­держания веры и нравов, особенно в отношении тех, кто проживал в отдаленных частях его государства. Поэтому приходят должно­стные лица северо-восточных краев, управители дальнего города по названию Пайтакаран 

 Trdat (king of Armenia) was firm in upholding the faith, especially among those who lived in the farthest parts of his state. Therefore official persons come to him from the north-easterns areas, rulers of the far-away city of Paytakaran. 

 http://www.vehi.net/istoriya/armenia/khorenaci/03.html (Book III.3) 

  
 Pavstos Buzand (4th-5th cc AD), ""History of Armenia"" 

 (Kura still being the boundary in early 4th c.): 

 О разбойничьем набеге царя мазкутов на землю, подвластную армянскому царю, о происшедшей большой войне и о том, как он погиб вместе со своим войском. 

 В то время маскутский царь Санесан, сильно разгневавшись, проникся враждой к сородичу своему, армянскому царю Хосрову, и собрал он все войска, — гуннов, похов, таваспаров, хечматаков, ижмахов, гатов и глуаров, гугаров, шичбов и чилбов, и баласичев и егерсванов, и несметное множество других разношерстных кочевых племен, все множество войск, которым он повелевал. Он перешел свою границу, большую реку Куру и наводнил армянскую страну. 

 About attacks of the Mazkut king on the lands under the dominion of the Armenian king, and about how he died with his troops. 

 ''Mazkut king Sanesan