Barda

Barda is the capital town of the Barda Rayon in Azerbaijan, located south of Yevlax and at the left bank of the Tartar river. It turned into the capital of Caucasian Albania perhaps for the reason that give up of the fourth century, Barda became the leader city of the Islamic province of Arran, the classical Caucasian Albania, last so till the 10th century. In the 460s AD, King Vache II of Caucasian Albania, performing below the orders of the Sasanian Emperor Peroz I, had founded the agreement called Partav, which turned into first of all known as Perozapat, and replaced Qabala as the capital of Caucasian Albania.

According to the 7th-century atlas, the Ashkharhats'uyts', attributed to Anania Shirakatsi, Barda changed into acknowledged by way of the call of Partav in the course of the period of past due antiquity and turned into placed inside the district of Uti Aṛandznak in the province of Utik', which turned into at that point in the possession of Albania. The identical author also mentions it a number of the provinces of Armenia.