Urartu
Urartu (Armenie: Ուրարտու - Urartu, Assyrian: māt Urarṭu;[3] Babylonian: Urashtu), correspondin tae the biblical Kinrick o Ararat (Armenie: Արարատյան Թագավորություն) or Kinrick o Van (Armenie: Վանի Թագավորություն, Urartian: Biai, Biainili;[4]) wis an Airn Age kinrick centred aroond Loch Van in the Armenie Hielands.
| Kinrick o Urartu Biainili[1] | |||||||||
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| 860 BC–590 BC | |||||||||
 Urartu, 9t–6t centuries BC | |||||||||
| Caipital |
Arzashkun Tushpa (efter 832 BC) | ||||||||
| Common leids |
Urartian Hurrian Proto-Armenian[2] | ||||||||
| Govrenment | Monarchy | ||||||||
• 858-844 | Aramu | ||||||||
• 844-828 | Sarduri I | ||||||||
• 828-810 | Ishpuini | ||||||||
• 810-785 | Menua | ||||||||
• 785-753 | Argishti I | ||||||||
• 753-735 | Sarduri II | ||||||||
| Historical era | Airn Age, Prehistoric | ||||||||
• Established | 860 BC | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 590 BC | ||||||||
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 Armenie Azerbaijan Georgie Iran Iraq Turkey | ||||||||
ReferencesEedit
- ↑ Paul Zimansky, "Urartian material culture as state assemblage", Bulletin of the American Association of Oriental Research 299 (1995), 105.
- ↑ Diakonoff, Igor M (1992). "First Evidence of the Proto-Armenian Language in Eastern Anatolia". Annual of Armenian Linguistics. 13: 51–54. ISSN 0271-9800.
- ↑ Eberhard Schrader, The Cuneiform inscriptions and the Old Testament (1885), p. 65.
- ↑ Hewsen, Robert H. (2000), ""Van in This World; Paradise in the Next" The Historical Geography of Van/Vaspurakan", in Hovannisian, Richard G., Armenian Van/Vaspurakan , Historic Armenian Cities and Provinces , Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers , p. 13, OCLC 44774992