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Movses Kaghankatvatsi (Template:Lang-hy,Movses Kaġankatvac'i, birth date and date of death unknown) was an indigenous historian of Caucasian Albania. According to various sources he was ethnically either Armenian or Caucasian Albanian. He authored in Armenian language The History of the country Albania, a historical composition, or, most likely, a compilation assigned to him or to Movsēs Dasxuranc'i. Based on the inscription added in one of the manuscripts (No 667, record No 1855), it is known that the author of the book was a monk. From his own writings it is known that he was born in Utik region, in a village of Kaghankatuk near Barda, the capital of Caucasian Albania (Book II, chapter 11).

Except for a few additional references in 13th-century sources, nothing is known about his life. Based on the fact that Movses narrates the Khazar invasion of Transcaucasia and other 7th century events as an eyewitness, some researchers (Emin, Bore, Shakhnazarian) assume that he lived at that time. This explains why the author refers to the Armenian historians of the 4th, 5th, and 6th centuries such as Agathangelos, Faustos of Byzantium, Yeghishe, and Moses of Chorene), but does not mention 7th-century Armenian authors as John Mamikonian, Shapuh Bagratuni, Sebeos, and Thomas Artsruni.

However, the 3rd book of his History differs from the previous ones in style and date. It deals with the Caspian expeditions of the Rus and their conquest of Partav (present-day Barda), dated by Ibn Miskawayh to 943 or 944. Based on the analysis of the language of the author and his style, some researches have concluded that the 3rd Book was written entirely by another person, who lived several centuries after Movses Kaghankatvatsi.

According to other researchers (Patkanov, Abegyan), Movses Kaghankatvatsi lived in the 10th century and wrote only the 3rd book of the "The History of the Country of Albania", while the information of the 1st and 2nd books about the events of the 7th century was derived from Movses Khorenatsi, Egishe and other Armenian writers.

References

1. Vladimir Minorsky. "Caucasica IV", Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 15, No. 3. (1953), p. 504
2. Template:Hy icon Svazyan, H. Մովսես Կաղանկատվացի (Movses Kaghankatvatsi). Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia. vol. viii. Yerevan, Armenian SSR, 1982 pp. 41-42
3. Template:De icon Gesellschaft, Görres. Oriens Christianus. Leipzig, Germany: O. Harrassowitz 1905, p. 274
4. Template:Fr icon Vavřínek, Vladimír. Byzantinoslavica. Prague: Czechoslovakia Academy of Sciences, 1929 p. 363
5. Oganesyan, Hrant Abgarovich. The Museums of Yerevan. Yerevan, Armenian SSR, 1986 p. 8
6. К.В.Тревер. Очерки по Истории и культуре Кавказской Албании IV В. до н. э. - VII в. н. э. (источники и литература). Издание Академии наук СССР, М.-Л., 1959
7. Zaza Aleksidze. Fundamentals of an Electronic Documentation of Caucasian Languages and Cultures
8. C. J. F. Dowsett, "The Albanian Chronicle of Mxit'ar Goš", Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 21(1958), pp. 472-490

Literature

• Template:Ru iconMovses Kaġankatvac'i (1984). The History of the Country of Albania (translated by Š.V. Smbatian). Yerevan: Matenadaran. {{cite book}}: External link in |title= (help)
• Template:Ka iconMovses Kaġankatvac'i (1985). The History of Albania (translated by L. Davlianidze-Tatishvili). Tbilisi.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Template:En iconMovsēs Dasxuranci (Movses Kaġankatvac'i ) (1961). The History of the Caucasian Albanians (translated by C. F. J. Dowsett). London: (London Oriental Series, Vol. 8).

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• Caucasus
• History of Azerbaijan