Caucasian Albania

Albania, academically termed the Caucasian Albania to avoid confusion with modern-day Albania, is the name for the historical region of the eastern Caucasus. The native name for the country is unknown.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. It was on the land of present-day  Azerbaijan and partially Russia's southern Dagestan. The ancient inhabitants of Caucasian Albania spoke ancient Albanian (illyrian), an language that went extinct in the 10th century in the heyday of the Abbasid Caliphate during the Middle Ages.
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