The Lupenians ( Old Armenian: Լփինք, romanized: Lpʿinkʿ, Latin: Lupenii) or Lpins were a historical tribe that lived in modern-day Republic of Azerbaijan in antiquity. The Lupenians were mentioned in several sources in different languages. They are equated with Pliny's Lupenii, dwelling south of the tribe of Silvii ( Chola), just next to the Diduri and near the frontier of Caucasian Albania. [1] Agathangelos renders their name in Greek as Lifénnioi ( Greek: Λιφέννιοι). The Ravenna Cosmography mentions their land as "Patria Lepon" situated next to Iberia and the Caspian Sea. [2] The Tabula Peutingeriana also mentions the Lupenii. [3] Vladimir Minorsky proposed later Arabic versions as well. [4] They were probably related to the Caucasian Albanians. [5]
Location
Scholars Suren Yeremian [6] and Tengiz Papuashvili proposed Iberia, especially the coast of the Alazan river, as a possible dwelling location of the Lupenians. However, Robert Hewsen opposed the idea and suggested their location as near modern Shamakhi, Azerbaijan, instead. [3] The Lupenians were visited by Bishop Israel, Albanian emissary to the North Caucasian Huns. The History of the Country of Albania mentions them as people professing the Christian faith. [7] Likewise, at least two catholicoi of the Caucasian Albanian Church - Ter Abas and Viro - were titled Catholicos of Albania, Lupenia and Chola, hinting at the faith of three neighboring regions. [3] Russian historian Igor Semenov put their location near Layzan. Most recently, Murtazali Gadjiev proposed the Shakki region as the location of the Lupenians. [8]
Society
The tribe was headed by a chief, whose title was referred to as Lbinshāh by Ibn Khordadbeh. [8]
References
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^ Pliny the Elder (1938).
"Natural History": 358–359.
doi:
10.4159/dlcl.pliny_elder-natural_history.1938.
{{ cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=( help) - ^ Ravennas, Anonymus (1860). Cosmographia et Guidonis geographica: Ex libris manu scriptis ediderunt M. Pinder et G. Parthey. Accedit tabula (in Latin). Fr. Nicolai (G. Parthey). p. 68.
- ^ a b c Hewsen, Robert H. (1997). "On the Location of the Lupenians, A Vanished People of Southeast Caucasia". Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. 50 (1/3): 111–116. ISSN 0001-6446. JSTOR 23658211.
- ^ Minorsky, V. V.; Bosworth, C. E. (2015-01-31). Hudud al-'Alam 'The Regions of the World' - A Persian Geography 372 A.H. (982 AD). Gibb Memorial Trust. p. 454. ISBN 978-1-909724-73-0.
- ^ Schulze, Wolfgang (2018-10-22). "Caucasian Albanian and the Question of Language and Ethnicity". In Mumm, Peter-Arnold (ed.). Sprachen, Völker und Phantome (in German). De Gruyter. pp. 275–312. doi: 10.1515/9783110601268-008. ISBN 978-3-11-060126-8. S2CID 158465873.
- ^ Yeremian, Suren (1939). "Моисей Каланкатуйский о посольстве албанского князя Вараз-Трдата к хазарскому хакану Алп-Илитверу" [Moses Kaghankatvatsi about the embassy of the Albanian prince Varaz-Trdat to the Khazar khagan Alp-Ilitver] (PDF). Записки Института востоковедения Академии наук СССР. 7. Издательство Академии наук СССР: 150.
- ^ Movses; Dowsett, C. J. F (1961). The history of the Caucasian Albanians. London; New York: Oxford University Press. p. 154. OCLC 445781.
- ^ a b Murtazali, Gadjiev. "The Mission of Bishop Israyĕl in the Context of Historical Geography of Caucasian Albania". From Caucasian Albania to Arrān: The East Caucasus be-tween Antiquity and Medieval Islam (C. 300 BCE – 1000 AD). Ed. By Rodert G. Hoyland. Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2020. P. 101-120.
The Lupenians ( Old Armenian: Լփինք, romanized: Lpʿinkʿ, Latin: Lupenii) or Lpins were a historical tribe that lived in modern-day Republic of Azerbaijan in antiquity. The Lupenians were mentioned in several sources in different languages. They are equated with Pliny's Lupenii, dwelling south of the tribe of Silvii ( Chola), just next to the Diduri and near the frontier of Caucasian Albania. [1] Agathangelos renders their name in Greek as Lifénnioi ( Greek: Λιφέννιοι). The Ravenna Cosmography mentions their land as "Patria Lepon" situated next to Iberia and the Caspian Sea. [2] The Tabula Peutingeriana also mentions the Lupenii. [3] Vladimir Minorsky proposed later Arabic versions as well. [4] They were probably related to the Caucasian Albanians. [5]
Location
Scholars Suren Yeremian [6] and Tengiz Papuashvili proposed Iberia, especially the coast of the Alazan river, as a possible dwelling location of the Lupenians. However, Robert Hewsen opposed the idea and suggested their location as near modern Shamakhi, Azerbaijan, instead. [3] The Lupenians were visited by Bishop Israel, Albanian emissary to the North Caucasian Huns. The History of the Country of Albania mentions them as people professing the Christian faith. [7] Likewise, at least two catholicoi of the Caucasian Albanian Church - Ter Abas and Viro - were titled Catholicos of Albania, Lupenia and Chola, hinting at the faith of three neighboring regions. [3] Russian historian Igor Semenov put their location near Layzan. Most recently, Murtazali Gadjiev proposed the Shakki region as the location of the Lupenians. [8]
Society
The tribe was headed by a chief, whose title was referred to as Lbinshāh by Ibn Khordadbeh. [8]
References
-
^ Pliny the Elder (1938).
"Natural History": 358–359.
doi:
10.4159/dlcl.pliny_elder-natural_history.1938.
{{ cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=( help) - ^ Ravennas, Anonymus (1860). Cosmographia et Guidonis geographica: Ex libris manu scriptis ediderunt M. Pinder et G. Parthey. Accedit tabula (in Latin). Fr. Nicolai (G. Parthey). p. 68.
- ^ a b c Hewsen, Robert H. (1997). "On the Location of the Lupenians, A Vanished People of Southeast Caucasia". Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. 50 (1/3): 111–116. ISSN 0001-6446. JSTOR 23658211.
- ^ Minorsky, V. V.; Bosworth, C. E. (2015-01-31). Hudud al-'Alam 'The Regions of the World' - A Persian Geography 372 A.H. (982 AD). Gibb Memorial Trust. p. 454. ISBN 978-1-909724-73-0.
- ^ Schulze, Wolfgang (2018-10-22). "Caucasian Albanian and the Question of Language and Ethnicity". In Mumm, Peter-Arnold (ed.). Sprachen, Völker und Phantome (in German). De Gruyter. pp. 275–312. doi: 10.1515/9783110601268-008. ISBN 978-3-11-060126-8. S2CID 158465873.
- ^ Yeremian, Suren (1939). "Моисей Каланкатуйский о посольстве албанского князя Вараз-Трдата к хазарскому хакану Алп-Илитверу" [Moses Kaghankatvatsi about the embassy of the Albanian prince Varaz-Trdat to the Khazar khagan Alp-Ilitver] (PDF). Записки Института востоковедения Академии наук СССР. 7. Издательство Академии наук СССР: 150.
- ^ Movses; Dowsett, C. J. F (1961). The history of the Caucasian Albanians. London; New York: Oxford University Press. p. 154. OCLC 445781.
- ^ a b Murtazali, Gadjiev. "The Mission of Bishop Israyĕl in the Context of Historical Geography of Caucasian Albania". From Caucasian Albania to Arrān: The East Caucasus be-tween Antiquity and Medieval Islam (C. 300 BCE – 1000 AD). Ed. By Rodert G. Hoyland. Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2020. P. 101-120.