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Arran was a historical Iranian region located in the eastern part of the South Caucasus, approximately corresponding to the present-day country of Azerbaijan.

Culture
The original inhabitants of Arran spoke a non-Indo European language, most likely belonging to the Eastern Caucasian linguistic family, which has scarcely survived till this day, as the Udi language. The first Iranians to penetrate the region were the Scythians, while considerable settlement by Iranians first occurred under the Achaemenid Empire (550 BC–330 BC), and possibly even before that, under the Medes (c. 678 BC–c. 549 BC).

During the 12th-century, Arran had a large Persian or Iranian population, with Persian culture being predominant amongst its urban Muslim inhabitants.