Caucasian Albania facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
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
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| Capital | Kabalak, Partav | ||||||||
| Common languages | Caucasian Albanian, Armenian, Parthian language, Middle Persian | ||||||||
| Religion | Paganism, Christianity, Zoroastrianism | ||||||||
| Historical era | Antiquity | ||||||||
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• Established
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4th century BC | ||||||||
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• Disestablished
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8th century | ||||||||
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| Today part of |  Azerbaijan Russia |
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Albania (usually called Caucasian Albania to not be confused with the modern state of Albania) is name is for the historical region of the eastern Caucasus. The native name for the country is unknown. It was on the land of present-day Azerbaijan and partially southern Dagestan.
Images for kids
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Old map showing Colchis, Iberia and Albania.
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Caucasian Albania until 387
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A column capital of a 7th-century Christian church with an inscription in Caucasian Albanian, found in Mingachevir. The column capital is now kept on display at Azerbaijan State Museum of History.
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The ruins of the gates of Albanian capital Qabala in Azerbaijan
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Roman inscription in Gobustan, Baku left by Legio XII Fulminata
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Caucasian Albania was a vassal of the Roman Empire around 300 AD
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The Amaras Monastery in Nagorno Karabakh, founded in the 4th century by St. Gregory the Illuminator. In the 5th century, Mesrob Mashtots, inventor of the Armenian alphabet, established at Amaras the first school to use his script.
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Mesrop Mashtots by Francesco Maggiotto (1750-1805). Mesrop Mashtots, an Armenian medieval evangelizer and enlightener, invented the Gargarean ("Caucasian Albanian") alphabet in the 5th century, shortly after creating the Armenian script.
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