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Urartu map : Image:Urartu715-713.png by Jolle upload on Commons by Hardscarf under license « Public Domain », itself from the "Histoire d'Armenie" by Pierre Brosset. Rivers : Demis Scale : Image:Scale_kilometres_miles_svg.svg by Sémhur , under license « Public Domain »
Urartu (Akkadian: ú-ra-áš-tu) is mentioned in the Babylonian Map of the World. [13] Various names were given to the geographic region and the polity that emerged in the region. Urartu/Ararat: The name Urartu (Armenian: Ուրարտու; Assyrian: māt Urarṭu; [6] Babylonian: Urashtu; Hebrew: אֲרָרָט ʾĂrārāṭ) comes from ...
Urartu map : Image:Urartu743.png by Jolle upload on Commons by Hardscarf under license « Public Domain », itself from the "Histoire d'Armenie" by Pierre Brosset. Rivers : Demis Scale : Image:Scale_kilometres_miles_svg.svg by Sémhur , under license « Public Domain »
'A Map of the Myriad Countries of the World'; Italian: Carta Geografica Completa di tutti i Regni del Mondo, "Complete Geographical Map of all the Kingdoms of the World"), printed by Italian Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci at the request by Wanli Emperor in 1602, is the first known European-styled Chinese world map (and the first Chinese map to ...
Attempt to reconstruct the fortress of Teishebaini. Architecture of Urartu was a method of constructing and creating spatial structures characteristic of Urartian culture, an Iron Age civilization in Anatolia, west Asia, encompassing the organization of space used by the inhabitants of Urartu, as well as the planning of cities, settlements, and individual buildings.
Urartu 9th–6th centuries BC Urartu under Aramu 860–840 BC. Urartu (Nairi, or the Kingdom of Van) existed in north-east Anatolia, centered around Lake Van (Nairi Sea), to the south of the Cimmerians and North of Assyria. Its prominence ran from its appearance in the 9th century until it was overrun by the Medes in the 6th century.
Tushpa (Armenian: Տոսպ, Տուշպա֊Վան Tosp, Tushpa-Van, Akkadian: Turuspa, from Urartian tur-, to destroy i.e. victorious) was the 9th-century BC capital of Urartu, later becoming known as Van which is derived from Biainili, the native name of Urartu. The ancient ruins are located just west of Van and east of Lake Van in the Van ...
Ancient Armenia refers to the history of Armenia during Antiquity.It follows Prehistoric Armenia and covers a period of approximately one thousand years, beginning at the end of the Iron Age with the events that led to the dissolution of the Kingdom of Urartu, and the emergence of the first geopolitical entity called Armenia in the 6th century BC.