Is anybody aware of the etymology of the toponym (Caucasian) Albania?
If I'm not mistaken, it seemes first to appear in Strabo's Geography
(<Albani'a>) and Pliny's Natural History (Alba:nia), and looks like
contamination of Latin Alba-toponyms with something Nakho-Dagestanian
or NE Iranian. Do the Alans have anything to do with it?
Sergei