The Ethnic Situation in Antique and Medieval Caucasian Albania

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ID20077973
AuthorsAleksan H Hakobyan (0000-0003-4524-2145, corresponding author), Aleksan Hakobyan
Year2023
Pages475-488
Publication date2023-06-05
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueCaucasian Albania (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherDe Gruyter (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/9783110794687-014
OpenAlexW4379518831
ISBN9783110794687
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited1

In the first evidence on Caucasian Albania, which goes back to Greek authors of the 4th-3rd centuries BCE, the name “Albania” refers to the territory between the downstream of the Kura, the Caucasian mountain ridge (up to Derbend) and the Caspian Sea. The analysis of the data of different periods makes it possible to understand this as a term for the territory’s population, conceived primarily as a group of tribes which was formed as a result of the splitting up of the proto-Lezgic ethnolinguistic entity. The analysis of the facts contained in written documents of the chronological period between 3th and 5th centuries CE reveals that the kingdom of Albania did not comprise a single ethnos with a common language and national consciousness. The absence of a written native language led to linguistic and cultural assimilation, which affected the ethnic selfconsciousness as well. Only the consolidation of the Christian part of the “Albanian meta-ethnos” resulted in the formation of the ethnos of the Udis in the 9th century

Ancient history · Antique · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Geography · Kingdom · Linguistics · National consciousness · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Anthropology · Byzantine Studies and History · Demography · Eurasian Exchange Networks · History · Philosophy · Geology

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