id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7088 Caucasian Albania - Wikipedia .html text/html 12300 1297 68 After the Caucasian Albanians were Christianized in the 4th century, parts of the population was assimilated by the Armenians (who dominated in the provinces of Artsakh and Utik that were earlier detached from the Kingdom of Armenia) and Georgians (in the north),[29] while the eastern parts of Caucasian Albania were Islamized and absorbed by Iranian[26] and subsequently Turkic peoples (modern Azerbaijanis).[5] Small remnants of this group continue to exist independently, and are known as the Udi people.[30] The Greek historian Arrian mentions (perhaps anachronistically) the Caucasian Albanians for the first time in the battle of Gaugamela, where the Albanians, Medes, Cadussi and Sacae were under the command of Atropates.[24] Albania first appears in history as a vassal state in the empire of Tigranes the Great of Armenia (95-56 BC).[48] The kingdom of Albania emerged in the eastern Caucasus in 2nd or 1st century BC and along with the Georgians and Armenians formed one of the three nations of the Southern Caucasus.[20][49] Albania came under strong Armenian religious and cultural influence.[23][50][51][52][53] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7088.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7088.txt