Ancient history of Azerbaijan

last pre-Islamic Iranian empire (224–651 AD)

ancient state of Armenia

thumb|332x332px|Ethnic map of the Caucasus in the 5th and 4th centuries BC. The Caspians (, Kaspyn; , Káspioi; Aramaic: ܟܣܦܝ, kspy; , Kaspk’; , Caspiani) were a people of antiquity who dwelt along the southwestern shores of the Caspian Sea, in the region known as Caspiane. Caspian is the English version of the Greek ethnonym Kaspioi, mentioned twice by Herodotus among the Achaemenid satrapies of Darius the Great and applied by Strabo. The name is not attested in Old Iranian. According to Vasily Struve, the 'Caspians' was the name given to those Saka-Massagetae tribes that were located along th

thumb|300px|Utik within the Kingdom of Armenia in 150 AD. The area around the confluence of the Kura and Arax is placed in Paytakaran instead of Utik, per Yeremian but rejected by Hewsen and Harutiunian. Utik (), also known as Uti, was a historical province and principality within the Kingdom of Armenia. It was ceded to Caucasian Albania following the partition of Armenia between Sassanid Persia and the Eastern Roman Empire in 387 AD. Most of the region is located within present-day Azerbaijan immediately west of the Kura River, while a part of it lies within the Tavush province of present-day

thumb|300px|The Kingdom of Gardman-Parisos (yellow) in 1017 when it was acquired by the Kingdom of Lori (red).

thumb|300px|Map of the Caucasus in the 5th-century. The Maskut lived between [[Derbent and Shaporan]] The Maskut (also known as Mazkut, Muskur) were a group of Massagetaen-Sarmato-Alanian tribes located in the eastern part of the Caucasus, along the western coast of the Caspian Sea. They lived between Derbent and Shaporan, which corresponds to present-day northeast Azerbaijan and southeast Dagestan (Russia). The name "Maskut" is also sometimes used to refer to a geographic area, rather than an ethnic group. The first wave of these tribes arrived in the 3rd-century from the Volga–Don Canal and