 The province was called "Otena" in Latin sources and "Otene" in Greek sources.According to the Armenian geographer Anania Shirakatsi's "Ashkharatsuyts" ("Geography", 7th century), Utik was the 12th among the 15 provinces of the Kingdom of Armenia, and belonged, at the time, to the Caucasian Albania (when the Utik and Artsakh provinces were lost by Armenia after its partition in the 4th century).According to "Ashkharatsuyts," Utik consisted of 8 cantons ("gavars", in Armenian)