Prince Arran
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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.
References
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- ^ 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)"