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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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Ishpuini
Ishpuini, also spelled Išpuini or Ispuini, was king of Urartu from about 830 to 810 BC, son of Sarduri I and father of Menua, and the first Urartian king to commission inscriptions in the Urartian language.
Lutipri
Lutipri, also written Lutibri, was an early ruler of Urartu around 844 to 830 BC, known only as the father named by King Sarduri I in his inscriptions.
Madyes
Madyes, also Madyas, was a Scythian king of the 7th century BC, son of Protothyes, known chiefly from Herodotus as the commander who defeated the Medes, after which the Scythians dominated Western Asia for decades.
Menua
Menua, also spelled Menuas or Minua, was king of Urartu from about 810 BC, who consolidated the kingdom and built the Şamran canal still watering the Van plain.
Rusa I
Rusa I (Rusas I), son of Sarduri II, was king of Urartu around 735–713 BC, rebuilding the kingdom before defeat by Sargon II of Assyria in 714 BC.
Rusa II
Rusa II, also written Rusas II, was king of Urartu from about 685 to 645 BC and its last great king, who built fortified cities against Cimmerian and Scythian raiders.
Rusa III
Rusa III, also known as Rusa, son of Erimena, was a king of Urartu who ruled the kingdom of Van at or near its end, probably in the late 7th century BC.
Rusa IV
Rusa IV is, in the traditional Urartian king list, the last known king of Urartu, the Kingdom of Van, conventionally placed around 590-585 BC, though his reign rests on contested scholarly reconstruction.
Sandakshatru
Sandakshatru, also written Sandakšatru, was a king of the Cimmerians who succeeded his father Dugdammē around 640 BC and is known only from Neo-Assyrian records.
Sarduri I
Sarduri I, also rendered Sarduris I, was a king of Urartu in the mid-9th century BC, son of Lutipri, who founded the dynasty ruling from Tushpa near Lake Van.
Sarduri II
Sarduri II (Sardur II, Sarduris II) was king of Urartu at the height of its power, until his defeat by Tiglath-pileser III in 743 BC.
Sarduri III
Sarduri III, also rendered Sardur III, was a king of Urartu in the third quarter of the 7th century BC, the last externally attested Urartian king.
Sarduri IV
Sarduri IV was a late king of Urartu, the iron-age Kingdom of Van, attested in Biainian royal inscriptions; his reign and chronology remain disputed by scholars.
Sien (king of Diauehi)
Sien, also spelled Seni or Sieni, was king of Diauehi, a polity of northeast Anatolia, captured by Tiglath-Pileser I in 1112 BC and pardoned at Assur.
Ualli
Ualli was a king of Mannea, a kingdom in the Zagros mountains of western Iran, who took the throne with Assyrian support after his father Ahsheri was assassinated.
Ullusunu
Ullusunu, also known as Ullusunnu, was king of Mannea in western Iran from about 716 BC, ruling as a vassal of Sargon II of Assyria.
Urzana
Urzana was the ruler, and in some documents king, of Musasir, a small kingdom between Assyria and Urartu, ended by Sargon II's conquest in 714 BC.
Utupurshi
Utupurshi (Utupursi) was king of Diauehi, a highland kingdom near modern Erzurum with its capital at Şaşilu, who submitted to the Urartian king Menua around 810 BC and paid annual tribute.