Prince Arran or Arhan was a semi-legendary founder of

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. The early Armenian historian

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tells of a certain Aran, a descendant of the legendary Armenian patriarch

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through

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. According to

Movses Kagankatvatsi Movses Kaghankatvatsi ( 'Moses of Kaghankatuk'), or Movses Daskhurantsi ( 'Moses of Daskhuran'), is the reputed author (or the alias of several authors) of a tenth-century Classical Armenian historical work on Caucasian Albania and the eastern ...

he was 9th generation descendant of

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. He is regarded as progenitor of Aranshahik dynasty. According to a legendary tradition reported by Khorenatsi, Arran was a descendant of Sisak, the ancestor of neighboring Armenian Тревер К. В. Очерки по истории и культуре Кавказской Албании IV в. до н. э. – VII в. н. э.. — М.—Л.: Изд. АН СССР, 1959. стр. 135 "''область между Араксом и оз. Севан, армянская провинция Сисакан (Сюник)''" province Syunik. Almost no information exists about him and his successors except names. He was contemporary of

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Legendary monarchs Caucasian Albania