Sakasene

It got its name from the tribes of the Scythians (Saks in the Eastern tradition), who later entered the tribal union of the Caucasian Albanians.

At the beginning of the 2nd century BCE it was annexed to Greater Armenia, becoming the Gavar (district) of the Nahanga (province) of Utic.

The position of the Scythian kingdom, as well as Urartu and Manna, dependent on Media, is confirmed in the "Book of Jeremiah", an excerpt dated 593 BCE:Raise banners all over the earth, blow the horn among the peoples, consecrate the nations to the war with Babylon, summon kingdoms against him - Ararat, Minnie, Ashkenaz - send a commander against him, gather horses like a cloud of locusts!

For the war with Babylon, consecrate the nations, the kings of Media, her rulers and governors, all the land under their control.

Describing the administrative divisions of Persia, Herodotus noted: Ecbatana, the rest of Media, wigging and Orthocoribantia paid 450 talents.

In the 2nd century BCE, by the Armenian king Artashes I, a number of neighboring regions were annexed to Armenia, including the right bank of the Kura, where the Albanians, Utii and Saki lived.

At the end of the IV century, the Sassanids help the king of Caucasian Albania Urnayr to seize the Utik region from the Armenians (with Khalkhal, Gardman, Shakashen, Kolt and Artsakh, but a few years later they were repulsed by the Armenians under the leadership of Mushegh Mamikonyan, but not for long.