"This is what we call the Armenization of the population of Karabakh. Similarly, some Armenians who today live in Armenia are Albanians who changed their church in the Middle Ages.” Albanian Christians, however, remained in the Shaki and Gabala regions. Even today there are “8,000" people who practice this faith in Azerbaijan. “Also there are some in the Khomsi, one of the provinces of Armenia.” Around the Church in Kish we ran into several women who, the guide identified as followers of the Albanian Church.