Prince Arran

{{Short description|Progenitor of Aranshahik dynasty}}

Prince Arran or Arhan was a semi-legendary founder of Caucasian Albania. The early Armenian historian Movses Khorenatsi tells of a certain Aran, a descendant of the legendary Armenian patriarch Hayk through Sisak.{{Sfn|Ulubabyan|1994|p=16}}{{Cite book |last=Moses Khorenats'i |url=https://archive.org/details/khorenatsi1978books0102 |title=History of the Armenians |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=1978 |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts & London |pages=139–140 |translator-last=Thomson |translator-first=Robert W. |author-link=Movses Khorenatsi |translator-link=Robert W. Thomson}} According to Movses Kagankatvatsi he was 9th generation descendant of Japheth.[http://ebooks.preslib.az/pdfbooks/azbooks/eb-az_05092012_10.pdf History of Albania (In Azeri)] He is regarded as progenitor of Aranshahik dynasty. According to a legendary tradition reported by Khorenatsi, Arran was a descendant of Sisak, the ancestor of neighboring ArmenianТревер К. В. Очерки по истории и культуре Кавказской Албании IV в. до н. э. – VII в. н. э.. — М.—Л.: Изд. АН СССР, 1959. стр. 135 "область между Араксом и оз. Севан, армянская провинция Сисакан (Сюник)" province Syunik. Almost no information exists about him and his successors except names. He was contemporary of Abraham according to Movses Kagankatvatsi which seems to be a legend.

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