Akademik Məlumat İdarəetmə Sistemi
Dövlət və Din, vol.10, no.Dövlət və Din - № 03 (70) 2021, pp.85-93, 2021 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
The Udins are one of the 26 tribes represented in the Albanian Tribal Union that existed in ancient Azerbaijan, Caucasian Albania. During the period of Caucasian Albania (IV-VIII BC) in Azerbaijan, many Albanian tribes, such as Gargar, Hun, Uti, Kaspi, Gel, Er, Kat, united into the Albanian tribal union. The Udins, one of the ancient and Albanian origin tribes of the Caucasus, the last descendants of the Christian Albanians, lived on their historical lands until the 19th century. They were able to preserve Albanian Christian traditions, language, ethnic identity, material and spiritual culture, as well as the Albanian Apostolic Autocephalous Church. The article analyzes the history of the Udins, the area of distribution of one of the ancient ethnic groups of Azerbaijan and the ethno-confessional situation as a result of the national colonial policy pursued by the Russian Empire in the Caucasus in the 19th century, the process of destruction of the ethnic identity of the Udi people after the abolition of the Albanian Church in 1836.