Abstract:

The article briefly examines the Albanian-Kipchak history of Karabakh. As we know, Karabakh is an integral part of Azerbaijan and an ancient turkic land. The Kipchaks, one of the most active Turkic tribes in the Middle Ages, left a deep mark on the history of this region. These traces are found both in historical monuments preserved in the region, and in multilingual sources on the history of the period, which we are studying, both in the names of localities and in people's memory. If you study the Albanian history (which is deliberately confused today in Karabakh) in parallel with the history of the Kipchak tribes in this ancient land of Azerbaijan, you can easily find answers to all questions. A general study of the kinship relations of the Albanian-Khachin Principality with the Kipchaks, who historically lived within the borders of modern Georgia, the names of persons preserved in the inscriptions of Albanian churches in Karabakh, 8 tribes of Kipchak origin as part of the tribal union called "Otuzikiler" during the Azerbaijani Safavid state, the expression Albanian Turks, reflected in the letter of the Albanian melikdoms to the Russian Emperor Peter I in 1723, and other similar facts testify to the Albanian-Kipchak history in Karabakh.

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