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The Military Colonization of the Caucasus and Armenia under the Sassanids
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
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The ancient Arabic historian al-Balāurī (d. 892) begins his chapter on the conquest of Armenia by a description of the political conditions of those regions in Sassanian times. According to the local historical tradition, obtained from inhabitants of several Armenian towns, there had been a time when the people of the Hazars in Southern Russia were making continuous raids over the Caucasus passes and penetrated Persia as far as al-Dīnawar in Media. The first king to take energetic measures against these raids was Kubā (Kawā, 488–531). One of his generals ravaged Arrān (Albania) between the Araxes and the Kura; then Kubā came himself and founded or, better, fortified in this region the towns of al-Baylakān, Bara'a, and Kabala. He erected also a wall of brick which extended from the country of Širwān in the east as far as the pass called Bāb al-Lān, the “Pass of the Alans”. His work was completed by his son Kisrā Anūširwān (usraw I, 531–579), who fortified farther to the north the towns of al-Šābirān and Maskat, and finally the very strong town of al-Bāb wa'1-Abwāb, on the site of the later Derbend.
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- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 8 , Issue 2-3 , January 1936 , pp. 613 - 618
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- Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1936
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page 613 note 1 On the topography of all these places in Albania cf. Marquart, Ecirc;rânŝahr, pp. III , 118, and the map accompanying Allen's, W. E. D. History of the Georgian People, London, 1932.Google Scholar
page 613 note 2 Arm. Vayoç, cf. Hübschmann, Idg. Forsch., xvi, p. 469.
page 615 note 1 For footnote, see p. 616.
page 616 note 1 I owe this reference to the kindness of Professor V. Minorsky.
page 617 note 1 Wright's Grammar of the Arabic Language, 3rd ed., i, p. 195.