Reforms of Sasanian king Khusro I and the northern bank of the Araxes – Arrān (Caucasus Albania)

• Authors: Mahir Khalifa-Zadeh , Katarzyna Maksymiuk

Abstracts

EN

The article considers the Sasanian king Khusro I Anushirwan’s reforms to improve the empire’s military and administrative architecture in the northwestern region of Ērānšahr, by creating the kust ī Ādurbādagān. The authors believes that it was a key element in the Sasanian strategy to enforce both central and military power in the defense sensitive Caucasia. The authors argues that the reform initiated the projecting of Ādurbādagān’s name, military, and administrative functions in Arrānšahr forming a strong interrelationship between the southern and northern sides of the Araxes as the entire Ādurbādagānšahr. Since Late Antiquity, Ādurbādagān and Arrān became interchangeable names and were in use on the northern bank of the Araxes.

Keywords

EN

History; Iran; Sasanians; Khusro Anushirwan; Ādurbādagān; the Darband pass; Caucasus Albania; Arrān; Azerbaijan

• Publisher: Uniwersytet w Siedlcach
• Journal: Historia i Świat
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 12
• Pages: 167-182

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Mahir Khalifa-Zadeh

• Canadian Political Science Association / Azerbaijan in Global Context, Media and Analysis Centre, Toronto, Canada

• https://orcid.org/0009000934878835

author

Katarzyna Maksymiuk

• Siedlce University, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000000187090333

Identifiers

DOI

10.34739/his.2023.12.10

Biblioteka Nauki

36165905