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'Movses Kaghankatvatsi' (), also referred to as 'Movses Daskhurantsi' (), was the indigenous Armenian historian of Caucasian Albania.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]} The Heritage of Armenian Literature, , Agop Jack, Hacikyan, Wayne State University Press, ,

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Controversy of name

Date and authorship of ''The History of the Country of Albania''

References

Literature

Controversy of name

This 7th century historian is associated with the historical compilation known as ''The History of the Country of Albania''
. The identity of the author as well as his writings has been subject to scholarly discussion for decades
. The first historian to mention this author was Mkhitar Gosh, referring to him as ''Movses Daskhurantsi'', a name that does not appear anywhere else. However, a later historian, Kirakos Gandzaketsi, referred to a statement in the ''History'' itself, to attribute the name of the author as ''Movses Kaghankatvatsi''
. The statement in question (Book II, ch. 11) says:

However, scholars question the content of this passage
. It is unknown whether the “I” in question was the original author or someone else
. Moreover, the passage suggests the author is from the province of Uti, and not necessarily from Kaghankatuk
.

Date and authorship of ''The History of the Country of Albania''

The primary work associated with this author, ''The History of the Country of Albania'' is subject to contreversy as well. The attribution of the work to a single author was rejected from the beginning. Movses narrates the Khazar invasion of Transcaucasia and other events up to the 7th century in Book I and II of ''History''.
However, Book III of his ''History'' differs from the previous ones in style of writing^[19] and date. It deals with the Caspian expeditions of the Rus and their conquest of Partav in the 10th century.
Because of such time lapse and difference in style, attribution of the work to a single author seems impossible. Some have tried to solve this dilemma by attributing Book I and II to ''Kaghankatvatsi'' and Book III of the compilation to ''Daskhurantsi''.

References

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5. Anthropological Composition of the Population of Central Asia, and the Ethnogenesis of of Its Peoples, , Lev Vasilievich, Oshanin, Peabody Museum, ,
6. Byzantion: revue internationale des études Byzantines, , , Société belge d'études byzantines, Centre national de recherches byzantines, Byzantine Institute of America, with
Contributor Paul
Graindor, Henri Grégoire, , ,
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Österreichischen
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10. Islamica, , , Asia Major, August Fischer, Erich Bräunlich, , ,
11. Two-Tiered Relaxification in Yiddish: Jews, Sorbs, Khazars, and the Kiev-Polessian dialect, , Paul, Wexler, Walter de Gruyter, ,
12. Acta Universitatis Lodziensis, , , Uniwersytet Łódzki, Uniwersytet, ,
13. The Southern Caucasus in Prehistory, , Karinė Khristoforovna, Kushnareva, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Museum History, ,
14. Svazyan, H. ''Մովսես Կաղանկատվացի'' (Movses Kaghankatvatsi). Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia. vol. viii. Yerevan, Armenian SSR, 1982 pp. 41-42
15. Gesellschaft, Görres. ''Oriens Christianus''. Leipzig, Germany: O. Harrassowitz 1905, p. 274
16. Vavřínek, Vladimír. ''Byzantinoslavica''. Prague: Czechoslovakia Academy of Sciences, 1929 p. 363
17. Oganesyan, Hrant Abgarovich. ''The Museums of Yerevan''. Yerevan, Armenian SSR, 1986 p. 8
18. Vladimir Minorsky. "Caucasica IV", Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 15, No. 3. (1953), p. 504
19. Notes and Communications, , Robert H., Hewsen, Bulletin of Oriental and African Studies, University of London vol. 27
Museum History, ,

Literature

★ The History of the Country of Albania (translated by Š.V. Smbatian), Movses Kaghankatvatsi, , , Matenadaran, 1984,

★ The History of Albania (translated by L. Davlianidze-Tatishvili), Movses Kaghankatvatsi, , , , 1985,

★ The History of the Caucasian Albanians (translated by C. F. J. Dowsett), Movsēs Dasxuranc'i, , , (London Oriental Series, Vol. 8), 1961,