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Urartu

Iron Age kingdom located in a large region around Lake Van

8 dated entries naming Urartu, drawn from 8 separate years between 860 BCE and 585 BCE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Kingdom of Urartu in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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9th century BC

8th century BC

  • 774 BCE774 BC— Shalmaneser IV begins his campaign to Namri in Urartu and a final campaign to Damascussource
  • 750 BCE750 BC—King Sardur II shows the cities in the kingdom of Urartu strengthen against the Cimmerians.source

7th century BC

  • 681 BCE681 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.source
  • 615 BCERusa III, king of Urartu (or 590 BC)source

6th century BC

  • 590 BCE590 BC—The Medians invade the Kingdom of Urartu, causing its fall.source
  • 585 BCE585 BC—Fall of the Kingdom of Urartu following a Median invasion. (The Scythians ruined the Kingdom of Urartu.)source

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