Maskut
Maskut (also known as Mazkut, Muskur, Mazkat, Mashkut, or Maskat) is a historical and cultural region located along the west coast of the Caspian Sea in the modern-day republics of Azerbaijan and Dagestan (Russia).

The region is named after the ancient Persian-speaking Massagetae tribes, who inhabited the region from around the 1st to the 7th centuries AD. The region's name was originally spelled Muskut or Mashkut, but was changed to Maskat due to the conventions of Arabic folk etymology. The name means "the place where something happened".

According to historian Vladimir Fedorovich Minorsky, Joseph Marquart already "...noticed the correspondence of the Armenian Mask'ut with the Arabian M.skt and modern Mushkur”. In historical literature, there is another name for the region – the Arabized “Muscat”. This area is called the “Country of Muskuts” and “The Muskut Kingdom” in various pieces of historical literature and traditions. The toponym "Maskut" was used to describe the region in the late Middle Ages but gradually fell into disuse.
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