^ abcdV. Minorsky. Caucasica IV. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 15, No. 3. (1953), p. 504
^ abcdeBosworth, C. E. "ARRĀN". Encyclopædia Iranica. Diakses tanggal 2012-07-15.
^Juvaynī, ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn ʻAṭā Malik (1997). Genghis Khan: the history of the world conqueror. Manchester University Press ND. hlm. 148. ISBN0-7190-5145-2. The province of Arran, classical Albania, lay within the great triangle of land formed by the junction of the Kur and the Aras, of which the greater portion now forms part of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Azerbaijan, the remainder belonging to the Republic of Armenia
^ abJournal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. The Society, published 1902, page 64. Text states: "In Mustawfi's lists, however, the Arabic article has everywhere disappeared and we have Ray, Mawsil, etc.; while names such as Ar-Ran and Ar-Ras (spelt Al-Ran, Al-Ras in the Arabic writing), which in the older geographers had thus the false appearance of Arab names, in the pages of Mustawfi appear in plain Persian as Arran and Aras."
^Prasad, Ganga. The Fountain Head of Religion. Published by the Book Tree in 2000, page 46