Le problème de l'ethnos albano-caucasien (sur la base des recherches de Ju. V. Bromlej sur la théorie de l'ethnos)

In: Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique, Band 31, Heft 2, S. 385-395

Abstract

Farida Mamedova, The problem of Caucasian-Albanian ethnos.
Documents of the Antiquity and of early Middle Ages composed in different languages as well as material culture prove the existence in Caucasian Albania, during the first-eighth centuries, of a dominant ethnos, the Albanians, with in the background various other populations. The formation of the Albanian ethnos was promoted by all the necessary conditioas: territorial and political unity, consciousness of an Albanian identity determined by the Aluank-Albanian cihnonym, cultural unity comprising that of religion and language. The common language in the region was the Albanian belonging to the group of north-east Caucasian (Nakh-Dagcstani) languages. The Albanian ethnos existed since the first class-society till the end of the Middle Ages. The opinion of certain scholars who deny its existence seems to us erroneous.