Albānia

, a country of Asia, between the Caspian sea and Iberia. The inhabitants are said to have their eyes all blue. Some maintain that they followed Hercules from mount Albanus in Italy, when he returned from the conquest of Geryon. Dionysius of Halicarna us , bk. 1 , ch. 15 .— Justin , bk. 42 , ch. 3 .— Strabo , bk. 11 .— Pliny , bk. 8 , ch. 40 .— Mela , bk. 3 , ch. 5 .――The Caspian sea is called Albanum , as being near Albania. Pliny , bk. 6 , ch. 13 .