Vitii

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Vitii is an ancient tribe that lived on the territory of Caucasian Albania and today in village Nic Qabala region Azerbaijan udins [1] [2] Some scholars believe that the Vitii were Caucasian Albanians, [3] [4] while others consider them to have migrated to the Caucasus by the ancient Greeks. [5] Some consider the Vitii to be the ancestors of the modern Udins, but according to other statements, these two tribes could live at the same time. [6] [7] [8] V.V. Nikolaev identifies the Vitii with Gutians. [9] A.A. Tuallagov describes the Vitii as Caucasian Tocharians and says that they came from the territory of the Yuezhi tribe. [10] [11]

According to Strabo, on their lands there was a city in Albania, where the Thessalians from the Ainian tribe lived; according to another version, “Ainians” is a distortion of the local name “Utii” or “Vitii”. [12] In Armenian sources, their land was called "Otena". [13] [14] In addition, Strabo mentions one more tribe of Vitii who lived north of the tribes of Albanians and Caspians on the shores of the Caspian Sea. [15] According to Pliny, the Vitii and Albanians made up the majority in the territory of ancient Sakasene, which was located in the area of present-day Nagorno-Karabakh. [16] Igor M. Diakonoff claims that some of the Uti were part of the Scythian kingdom in the Transcaucasia. [17]

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