Tabasaran Principality

It was located in the Samur river valley, roughly coinciding with the region in which the Tabasaran people still reside today.

Its location close to the main road between Derbent and Shirvan gave it some strategic importance.

The population of the principality was mainly composed of Tabasarans and Lezgins, and minor Caucasian tribes such as Tsakhurs, Rutuls and Aguls.

The state was governed by two sovereigns, one of which was called Ghāzī, the other Ma‘ṣūm.

Today the region is part of the Dagestan Republic within the Russian Federation.