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- ↑ Sacred Lives, Batholomew
- ↑ Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible by David Noel Freedman, Allen C. Myers, and Astrid B. Beck ,2000,page 152: "... Bartholomew preached to the Indians and died at Albanopolis in Armenia). It was condemned in the Gelasian decree, referred ..."
- ↑ The Untold Story of the New Testament Church: An Extraordinary Guide to Understanding the New Testament by Frank Viola,page 170: "... one of the Twelve, is beaten and crucified in Albanopolis, Armenia. ..."
- ↑ Butler on Batholomew
- ↑ The Search for the Twelve Apostles, by William Steuart McBirnie
- ↑ Butler's Lives of the Saints says "The place is said to have been Albanopolis (Derbend, on the west coast of the Caspian Sea)"
- ↑ In the Life of apostle Bartholomew Baku is identified as Alban. Some historians assume that Baku during the existence of Caucasian Albania was called Albanopolis.
- ↑ Butler's Lives of the Saints