Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Гянджа" in Russian language version.
Erem. (73) Šakašen; Hub. (352): Šikašen: Ptol. (V.12.4): Sakasene; Strabo (II.1.14): idem. located in the area extending from the Zakam (Jegam) River to the Kurik River (Kyurak-chai) along the right bank of the Kur, i. e. the region of Ganja (Elizavetpol’/Kirovabad). Šakašen formed a separate principality within Armenia (and after c. 387 in Albania) ruled by the Princes Daštakaran (Toum. :220).
The Persian name Ganja/Ganza (ganj «treasure, treasury»; see MacKenzie, p. 35) points, however, to there having existed a much older, pre-Islamic town there.
The post-Mongol historian Ḥamd-Allāh Mostawfī says that the Arab town of Ganja was founded in 39/659-60 (i.e., at the time of the first Arab incursions into eastern Transcaucasia) but gives no details (Nozhat al-qolūb, p. 91, tr. p. 93).
Moḥammad b. Ḵāled’s role as founder (or rather, as re-founder, see below) of Ganja is confirmed by the Armenian historian Movsēs Dasxurancʿi, where he says that the son of Xazr (for Xald, as explained by Marquart, p. 462) Patgos built Ganjak in the canton of Aršakašēn, with the date given in one manuscript as Armenian era 295/846-47 (bk. 3, ch. 20, tr. Dowsett, p. 218).
The Persian name Ganja/Ganza (ganj «treasure, treasury»; see MacKenzie, p. 35) points, however, to there having existed a much older, pre-Islamic town there.
The post-Mongol historian Ḥamd-Allāh Mostawfī says that the Arab town of Ganja was founded in 39/659-60 (i.e., at the time of the first Arab incursions into eastern Transcaucasia) but gives no details (Nozhat al-qolūb, p. 91, tr. p. 93).
Moḥammad b. Ḵāled’s role as founder (or rather, as re-founder, see below) of Ganja is confirmed by the Armenian historian Movsēs Dasxurancʿi, where he says that the son of Xazr (for Xald, as explained by Marquart, p. 462) Patgos built Ganjak in the canton of Aršakašēn, with the date given in one manuscript as Armenian era 295/846-47 (bk. 3, ch. 20, tr. Dowsett, p. 218).
