Lupenians

The Lupenians (Old Armenian: Լփինք, romanized: Lpʿinkʿ, Latin: Lupenii) or Lpins were a historical tribe that lived in modern-day Republic of Azerbaijan in antiquity. The Lupenians were mentioned in several sources in different languages. They are equated with Pliny's Lupenii, dwelling south of the tribe of Silvii (Chola), just next to the Diduri and near the frontier of Caucasian Albania. They had a main settlement or city which is only known by the foreign names Lp’nats’ k’aghak’ ('[capital] city of the Lupenians' in Armenian) and Loubion Kōmē ('Loubion village' in Greek). The Ravenna Cosmography mentions their land as "Patria Lepon" situated next to Iberia and the Caspian Sea. The Tabula Peutingeriana also mentions the Lupenii. Vladimir Minorsky proposed later Arabic versions as well. They were probably related to the Caucasian Albanians and have been suggested as one of the 26 constitutive groups of the Caucasian Albanian kingdom.

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