Aguank

(Caucasian Albania) According to the Armenian tradition, King Vagharshak (149-127 BC) appointed Prince Aran, nicknamed Aghu (Kind, Gentle) as a governor of the lands to northeast of the Greater Armenia, between the Caucasus range, Kura (Kuros) and Alazan rivers. Subsequently, the above territories were named Aghuank (Domain of Aghu). The Greek and Roman sources identify them as Albania (which is the Greek-Roman transcription of Aghuank). According to Strabo, Albania was mostly inhabited by different nomadic tribes. Among those tribes, Gargares were the most numerous. Albania was a merely geographical concept, as the Albanian tribes never united into an organized nation.
In AD 387, Armenia was divided between Persia and Byzantine. Both the Persians and Greeks established their own administrative division on the respective parts of the conquered Armenia. The Persians united the Armenian provinces Artsakh, Outik, and northwest of Paytakaran with Aghuank to form a new large province called Aran or Aghuank. Afterwards, the name of Aghuank, since it never had an ethnic origin, but rather was associated with an Armenian Prince Aghu, expanded on the above Armenian provinces. The Armenian historians and chroniclers of different times always used the name Aghuank in relation with Artsakh, Outik and Paytakaran provinces, whereas they rather used Aghuank Proper to designate what the Greek-Roman authors identified as Albania.

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