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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...
- It has been a
large city
since the
first millennium BCE,
initially as
Tushpa, the
capital of the
kingdom of
Urartu from the 9th
century BCE to the 6th...
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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 highlands, now...
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centuries BC, and is the
largest example of its kind. It
overlooks the
ruins of
Tushpa, the
ancient Urartian capital during the 9th century,
which was centered...
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century BC that
later became an
independent kingdom. Its
capitals were
Tushpa and
later Erebuni. The
Orontid dynasty, or
known by
their native name, Eruandid...
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early kingdom of
Urartu in the 9th
century BC,
before Sarduri I
moved it to
Tushpa in 832 BC.
Arzashkun had
double walls and towers, but was
captured by Shalmaneser...
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Tushpuea (Armenian:Տուշպուեա) is an
Urartian goddess from
which the city of
Tushpa derived its name. She may have been the wife of the
solar god
Shivini as...
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Camachus Citharizum Dadima Justinianopolis Melid Sugunia Theodosiopolis Tushpa Marmara Abarnis Abydos Achaiion Achilleion Ad
Statuas Adrasteia Aegospotami...
- for
moving the
capital of the
Urartu kingdom to
Tushpa (Van). This
proved to be
significant as
Tushpa became the
focal point of
politics in the Near East...
- ****yrian (Kalhu/Nimrud, Khorsabad, Nineveh),
Babylonian (Babylon),
Urartian (
Tushpa/Van, Kalesi, Cavustepe, Ayanis, Armavir, Erebuni, Bastam) and Neo-Hittite...
