Azerbaijanis claim Shaddadid state to be Azerbaijani, but the reality is different

The Shaddadid dynasty of Kurdish origin founded several states in Eastern Armenia in the 10th-12th centuries in Dvin, Ani, and Gandzak. They also had kinship ties with Armenian noble families. The 11th-century Iranian poet Qatran Tabrizi, who lived in the Shaddadid palace of Gandzak, emphasized their connection with Armenians by calling Shaddadid Fadl III the "pride of the Bagratuni house." The population in the territories under their rule was predominantly Armenian. When the Seljuk Sultan Alp Arslan conquered Ani, he gave the city and adjacent territories to the Shaddadids. The mother of Manuchihr, the founder of the Ani branch of the Shaddadids, was the daughter of the Armenian King Ashot IV Bagratuni. The famous orientalist V. Minorsky even refers to the Ani Shaddadids as Kurdish-Armenian kings.

Information about the Shaddadids can be found in Georgian, Armenian, Byzantine, and Muslim sources, and there is no mention anywhere that the state they established was Azerbaijani.

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