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Albania is the old name for Azerbaijan.

The Albanians came with Alexander the king of the Macedonians, as soldiers, after the occupation of Bactria, which at the time encompased Azerbaijan too, settled somewhere around, mainly in the remote mountain areas where the eagles dwell thus naming themselves the eagle people or Sqipetars, or Shiptars (Шиптари-Шќиптари).
After the formation fo the Prizren league, by the major forces (France mostly), the idea for having their own state emerged.
It was an atempt by France to circumvent the major trade routes passing through then Otoman occupied Macedonia to the warm seas and the mediterranean sea.

An ill fated attempt creating a historic injustice and turbulence in the SEE region.

However, they have a statehood and a state, soon Kosovo will be somehow independent and they can all go and jump from a very high cliff for all I care.
or they can just relax and start normal relatiopn with their neighbours.

So, that's how thay got the name.

The eagle people. Shqiperia and Shqipetars.

 

 

Historically, the present day territory of the Azerbaijan was called Arran or Shirvan, among other names, a term thought to be derived from the name of the leader who founded the Albanian kingdom in the Caucasus. Movses Kaghankatvatzi, the 7th century Armenian historian who wrote “History of the Land of Aghvank” – the only more or less complete source about the history of what is often referred to as “Caucasian Albania”

 

The earliest known inhabitants of what is today Azerbaijan were the Caucasian Albanians, a Caucasian-speaking people who appear to have been in the region prior to the host of peoples who would eventually invade the Caucasus.

 

 

Great states such as Manna, kingdom of Iskit(Skit, Skif), Atropatena and Albania appear on the lands of Azerbaijan in the 1st millennium BC and the 1st millennium AD. Those states played distinctive role in perfection of ruling traditions, in history of the economy and culture of the country and in formation of united people.

 

 

 

Christianity was widely spread in the northern part of the country, i.e. in some places of Albania, especially in western mountainous regions. Free Albanian church existed together with Armenian and Georgian churches.