Maskut

The Maskut (also known as Mazkut, Muskur) were a group of Massagetaen-Sarmato-Alanian tribes located in the eastern part of the Caucasus, along the western coast of the Caspian Sea.

[4] The modern Russian-Dagestani historian Murtazali Gadjiev suggests that these tribes had immigrated as a result of not only climate changes and longing to explore new regions, but as well as due to concurrent conflicts.

[5] In the first half of the 4th-century, a second wave of Sarmato-Alanian tribes from the northwestern Caspian coast along with a group of Alans from the North Caucasus started to migrate to Maskut.

Shahanshah Yazdegerd II (r. 438–457) retaliated by leading two military expeditions against the Huns in Maskut, recapturing Derbent and heavily fortifying it afterwards.

[8] According to the 10th-century Arab historian al-Masudi (died 956), the shahanshah Kavad I (r. 488–496, 498/9–531) had a "town built of stone" in the Maskut settlement.