Anania Shirakatsi was a 7th-century Armenian polymath and natural philosopher, author of extant works covering mathematics, astronomy, geography, chronology, and other fields. Little is known for certain of his life outside of his own writings, but he is considered the father of the exact and natural sciences in Armenia—the first Armenian mathematician, astronomer, and cosmographer.
1963 statue of Anania Shirakatsi holding a globe at the entrance of the Matenadaran
A statue of Anania at the Alphabet Park near Artashavan by Artush Papoyan [hy] (2005).
A statue of Anania at Yerevan State University
A bust at the Matenadaran
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.
Caucasian Albania until 387
A column capital with an Albanian inscription from a 7th-century church in Mingachevir (Azerbaijan State Museum of History)
The ruins of the gates of the Albanian capital Qabala
Roman inscription in Gobustan, Baku, left by Legio XII Fulminata
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