Dilgam ismailov

middle of the first millennium B.C., being a member of the 
Achaemenid Empire. The ancient authors report about a 
correspondence of Oroys – the king of Albania with Pompey – 
the Roman warlord in the sixties of the first century B.C. There 
were written signs on the surface of some ceramic products, rela-
ting to the end of the I millennium B.C. – beginning of the I cen-
tury A.D. There was found a stone with an inscription in Greek in 
village of Boyuk Dehne of the current Sheki region in 1902. 
The ancient Albanians believed the religion of the 
polytheistic idolatry. The worshipping the heavenly bodies was 
widespread there. Strabo wrote that the Albanians worshipped the 
Gods of Zeus, Helios and Selene. Zeus is the God of the Sky, 
Helios - the God of the Sun and Selene is the Goddess of the Moon. 
The Albanians worshipped the Goddess of the Moon more than the 
others. Large stone statues found in a human form had also been 
associated with the religious beliefs of the local population. 
There had been a belief in ancestors too.

---

53 
IV Theme: Azerbaijan in the Early Middle Ages 
 
1. Feudal relations in Azerbaijan in the III-V centuries
2.The Sassanid’s occupation of Azerbaijan and riots against it. 
3.The Sassanids’ Land, Tax and Transfering Policy in 
Azerbaijan. 
 
1.
Feudal relations in Azerbaijan in the III-V centuries 
Feudal relations were established in Azerbaijan during the 
III-V centuries.
In the past, during the slavery structure, lands belonged to 
the ruler, religious organizations and some slave-holders. Later, 
these lands were dispensed to military and state employees in 
return for service. Such kind of lands, distributed to the people 
of special services, was called a real property. The owner of 
that land (property) was called a landowner, i.e. the so called