POPULATION NUMBERS OF THE GREATER ARMENIAN, ALBANIAN AND IBERIAN LANDS UNDER THE EARLY ‘ABBASIDS (750-1258)
According to the first Muslim historians and geographers (9th-10th c.) the author could reconstruct the amounts of the state poll tax, i.e. jizya, rates, charged by the early ‘Abbasids' authorities from infidels, i.e. Christians, which accounted for the vast majority of the population of vilayet of Arminiya. This last consisted of three administrative units since 701: Arminiya I, which occupied Greater Armenian lands, Arminiya II, which is called Arran in Arabic and occupied Albanian lands and adjacent Greater Armenian areas Utik, Artcakh and Siwnik, and Arminiya III, which in Arabic as Jurzan and occupied Iberian lands and adjacent Greater Armenian area Gugark. That reconstruction of the rates allows author to conclude that the approximate number of population of all vilayet in the period of the rule of authoritative caliph Harun ar-Rashid (786-809) could reach 1500,000 residents, Arminiya I - about 750,000, Arminiya II - about 650,000 and Arminiya III - about 100,000.