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Urartian cuneiform inscription at the Erebuni Museum (Yerevan). Urartian or Vannic [17] is an extinct Hurro-Urartian language which was spoken by the inhabitants of the ancient kingdom of Urartu (Biaini or Biainili in Urartian), (it was also called Nairi), which was centered on the region around Lake Van and had its capital, Tushpa, near the site of the modern town of Van in the Armenian ...
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 ...
This article has an unclear citation style. The references used may be made clearer with a different or consistent style of citation and footnoting. (September 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Ethnographic and Linguistic Map of the Iberian Peninsula at about 300 BCE. This is a list of the pre- Roman people of the Iberian Peninsula (the Roman Hispania, i.e., modern Portugal ...
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.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... This article lists the kings of Urartu (Ararat or Kingdom of Van), ... The Ancient Civilization of Urartu, London, 1969.
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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 ...