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Ahšeri
Ahšeri, also known as Ahseri or Aksheri, was king of Mannea in the Zagros Mountains of western Iran in the mid-7th century BC, during the reigns of Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal.
Annals of Sarduri II
The Annals of Sarduri II, known as the Chronicle from Van, are a lengthy Urartian cuneiform inscription carved at the Van fortress recording King Sarduri II's yearly military campaigns.
Anzaf fortress inscriptions
The Anzaf fortress inscriptions are Urartian royal cuneiform texts from the twin fortresses of Lower and Upper Anzaf near Van, Turkey, naming kings Išpuini and Minua.
Arame
Arame, also written Aramu, was an early king of Urartu in the Armenian highland, known only from Assyrian records of Shalmaneser III's campaigns of 858 and 856 BC.
Argishti I
Argishti I was king of Urartu, the kingdom centered on Lake Van, whose early-8th-century BC campaigns carried Urartian rule north of Mount Ararat and into the lands around Lake Urmia.
Argishti II
Argishti II, also known as Argišti II, was king of Urartu, the kingdom centered on Lake Van, reigning around 713–690 BC after his father Rusa I.
Arinçkus stele of Argishti I
The Arinçkus stele of Argishti I is a fragmentary Urartian stela of King Argishti I (reigned about 785/80–756 BC), found at Arinçkus near Lake Van, Turkey.
Aza (Mannean king)
Aza, also spelled Azâ, was king of Mannea, a kingdom south of Lake Urmia in western Iran, reigning from 719 to 716 BC before being killed in battle.
Bagdatti
Bagdatti was a governor of the Mannaean province of Uishdish, brother of the Mannean king Ullusunu, who took part in the killing of Aza and was captured by Sargon II in 716 BC.
Bartatua
Bartatua, also known as Protothyes, was a Scythian king titled King of the Scythians in Assyrian records, known chiefly for asking Esarhaddon for a daughter in marriage around 672 BCE.
Battle of Arpad (743 BC)
The Battle of Arpad was a 743 BC battle in which Tiglath-pileser III of Assyria crushed Sarduri II of Urartu and his Syrian allies, ending Urartu's influence in Syria.
Battle of Arzashkun
The Battle of Arzashkun was a battle of about 856 BC in which Shalmaneser III of Assyria captured and destroyed Arzashku, the royal city of Urartu's ruler Arame.
Battle of Sugunia
The Battle of Sugunia was the capture of Sugunia, royal city of Arame of Urartu, by the Assyrian army of Shalmaneser III in 858 BC, recorded in the Kurkh Monolith annals.
Building of the citadel of Van (Tushpa)
The building of the citadel of Van (Tushpa) was the construction begun by Urartian king Sarduri I around 840-830 BC on a rock by Lake Van.
Campaign of Argishti I against Diauehi
The campaign of Argishti I against Diauehi was a Urartian military expedition of 785 BC in which King Argishti I burned Diauehi's royal city and imposed heavy tribute.
Campaigns of Ishpuini against the Mannaeans
The campaigns of Ishpuini against the Mannaeans were Urartian expeditions led by king Ishpuini and his son Menua into the Lake Urmia region in the late 9th century BC.
Campaigns of Shalmaneser III against Urartu
A series of Assyrian military expeditions by Shalmaneser III against the early kingdom of Urartu and its kings Aramu and Sarduri I, from 859 to 824 BC.
Cimmerian invasion of Anatolia
The Cimmerian invasion of Anatolia was a series of incursions by nomadic Cimmerians, driven south by the Scythians, who destroyed Phrygia and sacked Sardis before their defeat by Lydia.
Cimmerian invasion of Urartu
The Cimmerian invasion of Urartu was a series of attacks by nomadic Cimmerians on the kingdom of Urartu in the Armenian highlands between 720 and 714 BC.
Diauehi
Diauehi, also known as Daiaeni, was an Iron Age kingdom near Urartu in eastern Anatolia, attested from the 12th century BC and conquered by Urartu in the 8th century BC.
Dugdamme
Dugdamme, also known as Lygdamis, was a king of the Cimmerians who died around 640 BC during his second campaign against the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal.
Erimena
Erimena was a royal of Urartu known as the father of King Rusa, and possibly a king himself in the late eighth or seventh century BC.
Etiuni
Etiuni, also written Etio or Etiuini, was a loose confederation of tribes in the Armenian highlands, known almost entirely from Urartian royal inscriptions of the 9th and 8th centuries BC.
Foundation of Erebuni
The foundation of Erebuni was the founding of a fortress city by Argishti I, king of Urartu, in 782 BC on the hill of Arin Berd, now in Yerevan, Armenia.
Foundation of the kingdom of Urartu
The foundation of the kingdom of Urartu was the mid-9th-century BC unification of tribes around Lake Van, first attested under King Arame and consolidated by Sarduri I at Tushpa.
Hasanlu Gold Bowl
The Hasanlu Gold Bowl, also called the Gold Bowl of Hasanlu, is a solid gold embossed bowl found in 1958 at Tepe Hasanlu, Iran, decorated with deities and combatants.
Horhor inscription
The Horhor inscription, also called the Horhor Annals or Annals of Argishti I, is a long Urartian cuneiform rock inscription at Van recording King Argishti I's yearly campaigns.
Hubushkia
Hubushkia (Hubuškia) was an Iron Age buffer kingdom between the Assyrian Empire and Urartu in the northern Zagros, known from Assyrian inscriptions; its location, possibly near Hakkâri, remains debated.
Inushpua
Inushpua (Inušpua) was an Urartian royal prince of the late 9th century BC, named in cuneiform inscriptions as a son of Menua and grandson of King Išpuini of Urartu.
Iranzu
Iranzu was king of Mannea, a kingdom in the Zagros mountains of western Iran, during the eighth century BC, ruling as a vassal and ally of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.