Utik

Utik
Province of Kingdom of Armenia
189 BC–387 AD

Utik within Greater Armenia according to the Ashkharhatsuyts (per Suren Yeremian's map)[1]
Historical eraAntiquity
Middle Ages
• Artaxias I declaring himself independent
189 BC
• Given to Caucasian Albania by Sassanids
387 AD
Today part of Azerbaijan
 Armenia
Utik within the Kingdom of Armenia in 150 AD. The area around the confluence of the Kura and Arax is placed in Paytakaran instead of Utik, per Yeremian but rejected by Hewsen[2] and Harutiunian.[3]

Utik (Armenian: Ուտիք, romanizedUtik’), also known as Uti, was a historical province and principality within the Kingdom of Armenia. It was ceded to Caucasian Albania following the partition of Armenia between Sassanid Persia and the Eastern Roman Empire in 387 AD.[4] Most of the region is located within present-day Azerbaijan immediately west of the Kura River, while a part of it lies within the Tavush province of present-day northeastern Armenia.

  1. ^ Arzumanian, Makich; et al., eds. (1981). Haykakan sovetakan hanragitaran [Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia] (in Armenian). Vol. 7. Erevan: Haykakan hanragitarani glkhavor khmbagrutʻyun. p. 321, inlay.
  2. ^ Hewsen 1992, p. 309, note 3.
  3. ^ Harutiunian 1986, p. 268.
  4. ^ Chaumont, M. L. (1985). "Albania". Encyclopædia Iranica, Online Edition. Encyclopædia Iranica Foundation. The more or less self-interested loyalty of the Albanians explains why the Sasanians helped them to seize from the Armenians the provinces (or districts) of Uti (with the towns of Xałxał and Pʿartaw), Šakašēn, Kołṭʿ, Gardman, and Arcʿax. (...) These territories were to remain in the possession of Albania; a reconquest by Mušeł (cf. Pʿawstos, ibid.) was unlikely.