{"slug": "urartu", "label": "Urartu", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urartu", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q185068", "qid": "Q185068", "description": "Iron Age kingdom located in a large region around Lake Van", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [-859, -614], "span_label": ["860 BCE", "615 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "armenia", "label": "Armenia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "babylon", "label": "Babylon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "esarhaddon", "label": "Esarhaddon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "damascus", "label": "Damascus", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cimmerians", "label": "Cimmerians", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -859, "year_label": "860 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "860 BC—The kingdom of Urartu is unified.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1357668084#Events_and_trends", "title": "860s BC", "revid": 1357668084, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -857, "year_label": "858 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "858 BC—Aramu becomes king of Urartu.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1249375486#Events_and_trends", "title": "850s BC", "revid": 1249375486, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -773, "year_label": "774 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "774 BC— Shalmaneser IV begins his campaign to Namri in Urartu and a final campaign to Damascus", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1300994713#Events_and_trends", "title": "770s BC", "revid": 1300994713, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -749, "year_label": "750 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "750 BC—King Sardur II shows the cities in the kingdom of Urartu strengthen against the Cimmerians.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368385928#Events_and_trends", "title": "750s BC", "revid": 1368385928, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -680, "year_label": "681 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "681 BC—Sennacherib's second wife, Naqi'a (Zakitu), uses her wiles and influences to have the imperial council appoint her son Esarhaddon as her husband's successor in preference to the young man's two older brothers, who flee to Urartu (Armenia). Esarhaddon, unlike his father, is friendly toward Babylon and orders her reconstruction.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368318910#Events_and_trends", "title": "680s BC", "revid": 1368318910, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -614, "year_label": "615 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Rusa III, king of Urartu (or 590 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370510329#Deaths", "title": "615 BC", "revid": 1370510329, "section": "Deaths"}}]}