The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that the study of the medievaladministrative and political situation of the Eastern provinces of the Kingdom of GreaterArmenia possesses not only scholarly, but also political significance. This is particularlyrelevant in light of the fact that Azerbaijani historiography, guided by politicalconsiderations, distorts the history of the Armenian people, thereby questioning thelegitimacy of Armenian statehood. In contemporary discourse, this tendency is furtherreflected in official Azerbaijani claims not only to the territory of Artsakh, but also to partsof the Republic of Armenia.The objectives of the study are as follows:to re-examine, with new substantiations, the issues related to the dissolution of theKingdom of Aghven (Albania), the establishment of the marzpanate, and theincorporation of the provinces of Artsakh and Utik—detached from Armenia—intoAghven;to investigate the administrative and political status of Armenia’s Eastern provinceswithin the Aghvank marzpanate;to analyze the position of the local Armenian princely houses that emerged afterthe abolition of the Aghven marzpanate in the 9th–13th centuries.In the course of the research, a number of specialized methods were applied,including structural, historical-legal, systemic, and analytical approaches.The research demonstrates that following the dissolution of the Kingdom of GreaterArmenia, its eastern provinces—Artsakh and Utik—while incorporated into anotheradministrative-political entity, Aghven, nevertheless retained their Armenian character.This continuity served as the foundation for the subsequent manifestations of Armenianstatehood, including the Kingdom of Hamam of the East, the principalities of Parisos andKhachen, the melikdoms of Khamsa, the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region, and,during 1991–2023, the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh).
V. S. Hovsepyan (Wed,) studied this question.