Prince Arran

Prince Arran or Arhan was a semi-legendary founder of Caucasian Albania. The early Armenian historian Movses Khorenatsi tells of a certain Aran, a descendant of the legendary Armenian patriarch Hayk through Sisak.^[1]^[2] According to Movses Kagankatvatsi he was 9th generation descendant of Japheth.^[3] He is regarded as progenitor of Aranshahik dynasty. According to a legendary tradition reported by Khorenatsi, Arran was a descendant of Sisak, the ancestor of neighboring Armenian^[4] province Syunik. Almost no information exists about him and his successors except names. He was contemporary of Abraham according to Movses Kagankatvatsi which seems to be a legend.

Arran

Aranshahik

Regnal titles

Vacant

Title last held by

Title created

King of Caucasian Albania

Succeeded by

Aray

References

↑ Ulubabyan 1994, p. 16.
↑ Moses Khorenats'i (1978). History of the Armenians. Translated by Thomson, Robert W. Cambridge, Massachusetts & London: Harvard University Press. pp. 139–140.
↑ History of Albania (In Azeri)
↑ Тревер К. В. Очерки по истории и культуре Кавказской Албании IV в. до н. э. – VII в. н. э.. — М.—Л.: Изд. АН СССР, 1959. стр. 135 "область между Араксом и оз. Севан, армянская провинция Сисакан (Сюник)"

[FOOTNOTEUlubabyan199416-1] Ulubabyan 1994, p. 16.

[:4-2] Moses Khorenats'i (1978). History of the Armenians. Translated by Thomson, Robert W. Cambridge, Massachusetts & London: Harvard University Press. pp. 139–140.

[3] History of Albania (In Azeri)

[4] Тревер К. В. Очерки по истории и культуре Кавказской Албании IV в. до н. э. – VII в. н. э.. — М.—Л.: Изд. АН СССР, 1959. стр. 135 "область между Араксом и оз. Севан, армянская провинция Сисакан (Сюник)"

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