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The Principality of Khachen (Template:Lang-hy) was a medieval principality, in part of historical Artsakh (present-day Nagorno-Karabakh).

Its history is hazily recorded but remains of considerable political relevance today as both sides in the Nagorno Karabagh conflict try to use fragments of archaeological and literary 'proof' to underline their respective claims to that area.

Armenian sources place Khachen in medieval Armenia . The latter viewpoint is supported by a letter from the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII addressed to the prince of Khachen with the inscription "To Prince of Khachen, Armenia." According to Abū Dulaf, an Arab traveller of the time, Khachen was an "Armenian principality immediately south of Barda'a".

Azerbaijani sources consider that Khachen was part of Caucasian Albania rather than of Armenia. Azerbaijani historians argue that travellers' reports (like those of Abu Dulaf quoted) refered to virtually any Caucasian Christian they met as an Armenian so that while such sources were written in good faith they can't be seen as 'proof' of population being Armenian rather than Albanian.


References

  1. The New Encyclopedia Britannica by Robert MacHenry, Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc, Robert MacHenry, (1993) p.761
  2. Howorth, Henry Hoyle(1876) History of the Mongols: From the 9th to the 19th CenturyLongmans, Green, and Co. p. 14
  3. Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, De ceremoniis aubae byzantinae (Ed. J.P.Migne. Patrologiae cursiis completus, Series Graeco-Latina, 112), p. 248
  5. Abū-Dulaf. Abū-Dulaf Misʻar Ibn Muhalhil's Travels in Iran (circa A.D. 950), Cairo University Press, 1955, p. 74
  6. Azerbaijan Guidebook (Fourth Edition), AzerOlympicInternational Publishing House (2007) p.237

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