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Located on the lower course of the Terter River in the old Caucasian Albanian principality of Uti, Partaw was founded by the Albanian King Vac'e II (c. 460 A.D.) replacing the earlier Albanian capital of Kabala north of the Kur, and was named to honor Shah Firuz (Arm.: Peroz, 459-484).
Pʿartaw (a name not related to Parthia, Parthian, cf. H. Hübschmann, Armenische Grammatik I, Leipzig, 1897, p. 65), a former Armenian town situated on the Terter in the province of Uti, was set up as the capital of Albania perhaps at the end of the 4th century (cf. Hübschmann, Die altarmenischen Ortsnamen, repr. Amsterdam, 1969, pp. 275, 277, 343; Trever, Ocherki, pp. 237-42, 251, 252 and passim; W. Barthold, EI1, p. 656). In the reign of king Vačē, Pʿartaw was rebuilt by Pērōz under the name of Pērōzabād (Movsēs, History 1.15, tr. p. 55); later the city was fortified by Kavād, who was to call it Pērōzkavād (victorious Kavād).
Early Arrān seems to have displayed the famed linguistic complexity of the Caucasus as a whole. Strabo 9.4, cites Theophanes of Mytilene that Albania had at least 26 different languages or dialects, and the distinctive Albanian speech persisted into early Islamic times, since Armenian and Islamic sources alike stigmatize the tongue as cacophonous and barbarous, with Eṣṭaḵrī, p. 192, Ebn Ḥawqal, p. 349, tr. Kramers-Wiet, p. 342, and Moqaddasī, p. 378, recording that al-Rānīya was still spoken in the capital Bardaʿa or Barḏaʿa in their time (4th/10th century)
Хотя местные князья сохранили свои земли, Барда’а, столица Аррана, стала авангардом и центром арабской администрации. Арабские географы восхваляют её местоположение, обширные сады и обилие различных плодов.
Pʿartaw (a name not related to Parthia, Parthian, cf. H. Hübschmann, Armenische Grammatik I, Leipzig, 1897, p. 65), a former Armenian town situated on the Terter in the province of Uti, was set up as the capital of Albania perhaps at the end of the 4th century (cf. Hübschmann, Die altarmenischen Ortsnamen, repr. Amsterdam, 1969, pp. 275, 277, 343; Trever, Ocherki, pp. 237-42, 251, 252 and passim; W. Barthold, EI1, p. 656). In the reign of king Vačē, Pʿartaw was rebuilt by Pērōz under the name of Pērōzabād (Movsēs, History 1.15, tr. p. 55); later the city was fortified by Kavād, who was to call it Pērōzkavād (victorious Kavād).
Хотя местные князья сохранили свои земли, Барда’а, столица Аррана, стала авангардом и центром арабской администрации. Арабские географы восхваляют её местоположение, обширные сады и обилие различных плодов.
