Amaras Monastery is an Armenian monastery near the village in the Khojavend District of Azerbaijan and formerly the Republic of Artsakh. It was a prominent religious and educational center in medieval Armenia.

Caucasian Albania is a modern exonym for a former state located in ancient times in the Caucasus, mostly in what is now Azerbaijan. The modern endonyms for the area are Aghwank and Aluank, among the Udi people, who regard themselves as descended from the inhabitants of Caucasian Albania. However, its original endonym is unknown.