ALBAN ETNOSU KONUSUNA DAİR

About the state of Albania in the South Caucasus was first mentioned in the book of Strabo. For the first time Albanians as the name representatives of the Albanian population in the source are mentioned in connection with the events the last third of the IV. B.C authors II. A.D. Flavy Arrian. In th...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:TURAN : stratejik arastirmalar merkezi Vol. 4; no. 15; pp. 24 - 30
Main Author: Quliyeva, Rüxsarə Bəxtiyar
Format: Journal Article
Language:Azerbaijani
Turkish
Published: Kars Sage Publishers’ House 01.07.2012
Sage Yayınları
TURAN-SAM (TURAN Stratejik Arastirmalar Merkezi)
Subjects:
Albanian language
Ancient history
Ancient World
Attitudes
Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Cultural history
Ethnic Minorities Studies
Ethnology
Ethnonyms
Etymology
Latin language
Literature
Minority & ethnic groups
Nationalism Studies
Rivers
Social development
Social Informatics
Social Sciences
Sociology of Culture
Turkic languages
Turkish language
White people
Writers
Albania
Kura
Strabon
Caucasia
Ancient
Albania
Turks
ISSN:1308-8041, 1309-4033
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:About the state of Albania in the South Caucasus was first mentioned in the book of Strabo. For the first time Albanians as the name representatives of the Albanian population in the source are mentioned in connection with the events the last third of the IV. B.C authors II. A.D. Flavy Arrian. In the period of Alexander the Great a question "Alban" have concerned as well other antique authors Guy Pliny Sekund and Guy Juli Solin. The information received from Guy Plini Sekunda, Flavi Arrian and Guy Juli Solin confirms existence of the state Albania at the time of Alexander the Great. In an ancient sources ethnonym "Alban" had been used and as the name of all population of Albania, and the name of a separate tribe. Generalizing messages of antique authors, it is possible to draw a conclusion: Albanians lived in territory of coast of Caspian sea to a place of a confluence of the Kura in it, in the Caucasian mountains which surrounded a river basin of the Kura, on average and its bottom current, especially on the left coast. About an origin of the name "Albania" in the scientific literature there are various opinions. Some researchers consider that this name of a Latin origin with value "the Country of mountains". The authors who identify the river Alazan with the river of Alban which mentioned by Plini consider that ethnonym Alban and the name of Albania formed from the name of river Alban.
Bibliography:SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1
ObjectType-Feature-1
content type line 14
ISSN:1308-8041
1309-4033