Arran

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Arran is a historical region in the South Caucasus, largely corresponding to parts of modern-day Azerbaijan between the Kura and Aras rivers.

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Label Occurrences
Arran canonical 11

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Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf geographical region ⓘ
historical region ⓘ
associatedWith Azerbaijanis ⓘ
Caucasian Albanians ⓘ
borderedBy Caspian Sea ⓘ
Caucasus Mountains ⓘ
linked to: Caucasus
capitalOrMajorCityHistorically Barda ⓘ
countryNow Azerbaijan ⓘ
ethnicGroupsHistorically Caucasian Albanians ⓘ
Iranian peoples ⓘ
Turkic peoples ⓘ
hasRiver Aras River ⓘ
Kura River ⓘ
historicalPeriod Late Antiquity ⓘ
Middle Ages ⓘ
knownAs Al-Ran (in Arabic sources) ⓘ
Albania (in some classical sources) ⓘ
Aran ⓘ
linked to: Aran Islands
languageInHistory Arabic ⓘ
Azerbaijani ⓘ
Caucasian Albanian language ⓘ
Persian ⓘ
linked to: Persian language
locatedBetween Aras River ⓘ
Kura River ⓘ
locatedIn Caucasus ⓘ
South Caucasus ⓘ
majorCityHistorically Beylagan ⓘ
Ganja ⓘ
mentionedIn Arabic geographies ⓘ
Byzantine sources ⓘ
Persian chronicles ⓘ
modernRegionOverlap Ganja-Qazakh region ⓘ
Karabakh ⓘ
Mugan plain ⓘ
linked to: Mughan plain
partOf Caucasian Albania ⓘ
Transcaucasia ⓘ
linked to: South Caucasus
religionInHistory Christianity ⓘ
Islam ⓘ
Zoroastrianism ⓘ
strategicImportance agricultural plain between Kura and Aras ⓘ
control of Caucasus–Caspian routes ⓘ
underRuleOf Arab Caliphate ⓘ
linked to: Islamic Caliphates

Ilkhanate ⓘ
linked to: Mongol Ilkhanate

Russian Empire ⓘ
Safavid Empire ⓘ
Sasanian Empire ⓘ
Seljuk Empire ⓘ
Shirvanshahs ⓘ

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