Barda is the capital city of the
Barda Rayon in
Azerbaijan, located south of
Yevlax and on the left bank of the
Tartar river. Once an
Armenian town, and later the capital of
Caucasian Albania perhaps since the end of the fourth century, Barda became the chief city of the Islamic province of
Arran, the classical Caucasian Albania, remaining so until the tenth century.