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A traditionally and historically Iranian city, it was part of Caucasian Albaniawhich was a satrap of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, and is traditionally identified with Albana, the capital. Derbent stayed under Iranian rule, while occasionally briefly taken by the Ottoman Turks such as in 1583 after the Battle of Torches and the Treaty of Istanbul, …