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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Arran canonical 11

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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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