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'''Caucasian Albanians''', also refered to as '''Arranians''' by Persian or Arabic sources, were a Caucasian people who inhabited [[Caucasian Albania]] (later called [[Arran (Republic of Azerbaijan)|Arran]]. They spoke their own Caucasian Albanian language, as well as [[Arabic]] and [[Persian language]]<ref>[http://www.vostlit.info/Texts/Dokumenty/S.Kavkaz/Karaulov/frametext1.htm In Russian, text states: Язык в Адербейджане, Армении и Арране персидский и арабский, исключая области города Дабиля: вокруг него говорят по-армянски: в стране Берда'а язык арранский.]</ref><ref name="link1">[http://www.vostlit.info/Texts/Dokumenty/S.Kavkaz/Karaulov/text7.htm Al-Muqaddasi, 985]</ref><ref name="link2">[http://www.vostlit.info/Texts/Dokumenty/S.Kavkaz/Karaulov/text9.htm Ibn-Hawqal, 978]</ref>. Due to the Turkification of the [[South Caucasus]] starting from the 11th century, the Caucasian Albanians had become Turkic speaking. |
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{{cquote|''some scholars (Yadrintsev, Kharuzin, Chantre) suggested to change the terminology of some Turko-Tatar people, who somatically don’t have much in common with Turks, for instance, to call Aderbaijani Tatars (Iranians by race) Aderbaijans.''<ref>{{ru icon}} [http://www.cultinfo.ru/fulltext/1/001/007/103/103731.htm Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary. "Turko-Tatars".] St. Petersburg, Russia, 1890-1907.</ref>}} |
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The term Azerbaijani has supplanted Arrani in modern usage and Arranis are now referred to as [[Azerbaijani people|Azerbaijanis]]. However, the term Arrani is still used in a historical sense<ref>Tadeusz Swietochowski, Russia and Azerbaijan: A Borderland in Transition (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995. pg 16</ref> and has also occasionally been used in the 20th and 21st century to refer to the Turkic speakers of the Republic of Azerbaijan. |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
Revision as of 10:29, 2 September 2007
Caucasian Albanians, also refered to as Arranians by Persian or Arabic sources, were a Caucasian people who inhabited Caucasian Albania (later called Arran. They spoke their own Caucasian Albanian language, as well as Arabic and Persian language[1][2][3]. Due to the Turkification of the South Caucasus starting from the 11th century, the Caucasian Albanians had become Turkic speaking.