Kingdom of Urartu Ուրարտու Արարատյան Թագավորություն Biainili[1]
860 BC–590 BC →   →
Urartu, 9th–6th centuries BC.
Capital	Arzashkun Tushpa (after 832 BC)
Language(s)	Urartian, proto-Armenian
Religion	Polytheism
Government	Monarchy
King
- 858-844	Arame
- 844-828	Sarduri I
- 828-810	Ishpuini
- 810-785	Menuas
- 785-753	Argishti I
- 753-735	Sarduri II
Historical era	Iron Age
- Established	860 BC
- Disestablished	590 BC

Urartu (Armenian: Ուրարտու - Urartu, Assyrian: māt Urarṭu;^[2] Babylonian: Urashtu), corresponding to Ararat (Armenian: Արարատյան Թագավորություն) or Kingdom of Van (Armenian: Վանի Թագավորություն, Urartian: Biai, Biainili;^[3]) was an Iron Age kingdom centered around Lake Van in the Armenian Highlands.

Strictly speaking, Urartu is the Assyrian term for a geographical region, while "kingdom of Urartu" or "Biainili lands" are terms used in modern historiography for the Iron Age state that arose in that region. That a distinction should be made between the geographical and the political entity was already pointed out by König (1955).^[4] The landscape corresponds to the mountainous plateau between Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, and the Caucasus mountains, later known as the Armenian Highlands. The kingdom rose to power in the mid 9th century BC, but was conquered by Media in the early 6th century BC.

Name[link]

The name Urartu comes from Assyrian sources: the Assyrian King Shalmaneser I (1263–1234 BC) recorded a campaign in which he subdued the entire territory of "Uruatri".^[5][6] The Shalmaneser text uses the name Urartu to refer to a geographical region, not a kingdom, and names eight "lands" contained within Urartu (which at the time of the campaign were still disunited). The kingdom's native name was Biainili, also spelt Biaineli, (from which is derived the Armenian toponym Վան "Van"),^[7] but prior to the 8th century BC, they also called their now united kingdom "Nairi".^[8] Scholars^[9] believe that Urartu is an Akkadian variation of Ararat of the Old Testament. Indeed, Mount Ararat is located in ancient Urartian territory, approximately 120 km north of its former capital. In addition to referring to the famous Biblical mountain, Ararat also appears as the name of a kingdom in Jeremiah 51:27, mentioned together with Minni and Ashkenaz.

Scholars such as Carl Friedrich Lehmann-Haupt (1910) believed that the people of Urartu called themselves Khaldini after their god Khaldi.^[10] The Nairi, an Iron Age people of the Van area, are sometimes considered related or identical.^[11]

In the early 6th century BC, the Urartian Kingdom was replaced by the Armenian Orontid dynasty. In the trilingual Behistun inscription, carved in 521/0^[12] BC by the order of Darius the Great of Persia, the country referred to as Urartu in Assyrian is called Arminiya in Old Persian and Harminuia in Elamite.

Shubria was part of the Urartu confederation. Later, there is reference to a district in the area called Arme or Urme, which some scholars have linked to the name Armenia.^[13][14]

Geography[link]

Urartu 715-713 BC

Urartu comprised an area of approximately 200,000 square miles (520,000 km²), extending from the river Kura in the north, to the northern foothills of the Taurus Mountains in the south; and from the Euphrates in the west to the Caspian sea in the east.^[15]

At its apogee, Urartu stretched from the borders of northern Mesopotamia to the southern Caucasus, including present-day Armenia and southern Georgia as far as the river Kura. Archaeological sites within its boundaries include Altintepe, Toprakkale, Patnos and Cavustepe. Urartu fortresses included Erebuni (present day Yerevan city), Van Fortress, Argishtihinili, Anzaf, Cavustepe and Başkale, as well as Teishebaini (Karmir Blur, Red Mound) and others.

Discovery[link]

Inspired by the writings of the medieval Armenian historian Movses Khorenatsi (who had described Urartian works in Van and attributed them to the legendary queen Semiramis), the French scholar Jean Saint-Martin suggested that his government send Friedrich Eduard Schulz, a German professor, to the Van area in 1827 on behalf of the French Oriental Society.^[16] Schulz discovered and copied numerous cuneiform inscriptions, partly in Assyrian and partly in a hitherto unknown language. Schulz also re-discovered the Kelishin stele, bearing an Assyrian-Urartian bilingual inscription, located on the Kelishin pass on the current Iraqi-Iranian border. A summary account of his initial discoveries was published in 1828. Schulz and four of his servants were murdered by Kurds in 1829 near Başkale. His notes were later recovered and published in Paris in 1840. In 1828, the British Assyriologist Henry Creswicke Rawlinson had attempted to copy the inscription on the Kelishin stele, but failed because of the ice on the stele's front side. The German scholar R. Rosch made a similar attempt a few years later, but he and his party were attacked and killed.

In the late 1840s Sir Austen Henry Layard examined and described the Urartian rock-cut tombs of Van Castle, including the Argishti chamber. From the 1870s, local residents began to plunder the Toprakkale ruins, selling its artefacts to European collections. In the 1880s this site underwent a poorly-executed excavation organised by Hormuzd Rassam on behalf of the British Museum. Almost nothing was properly documented.

The first systematic collection of Urartian inscriptions, and thus the beginning of Urartology as a specialized field dates to the 1870s, with the campaign of Sir Archibald Henry Sayce. The German engineer Karl Sester, discoverer of Mount Nemrut, collected more inscriptions in 1890/1.

A Urartian cauldron, from the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara

Waldemar Belck visited the area in 1891, discovering the Rusa stele. A further expedition planned for 1893 was prevented by Turkish-Armenian hostilities. Belck together with Lehmann-Haupt visited the area again in 1898/9, excavating Toprakkale. On this expedition, Belck reached the Kelishin stele, but he was attacked by Kurds and barely escaped with his life. Belck and Lehmann-Haupt reached the stele again in a second attempt, but were again prevented from copying the inscription by weather conditions. After another assault on Belck provoked the diplomatic intervention of Wilhelm II, Sultan Abdul Hamid II, agreed to pay Belck a sum of 80,000 gold marks in reparation. During World War I, the Lake Van region briefly fell under Russian control. In 1916, the Russian scholars Nikolay Yakovlevich Marr and Iosif Abgarovich Orbeli, excavating at the Van fortress, uncovered a four-faced stele carrying the annals of Sarduri II. In 1939 Boris Borisovich Piotrovsky excavated Karmir-Blur, discovering Teišebai, the city of the god of war, Teišeba. In 1938–40, excavations by the American scholars Kirsopp and Silva Lake were cut short by World War II, and most of their finds and field records were lost when a German submarine torpedoed their ship, the SS Athenia. Their surviving documents were published by Manfred Korfmann in 1977.

A new phase of excavations began after the war. Excavations were at first restricted to Soviet Armenia. The fortress of Karmir Blur, dating from the reign of Rusa II, was excavated by a team headed by Boris Piotrovsky, and for the first time the excavators of a Urartian site published their findings systematically. Beginning in 1956 Charles Burney identified and sketch-surveyed many Urartian sites in the Lake Van area and, from 1959, a Turkish expedition under Tahsin Özgüç excavated Altintepe and Arif Erzen.

In the late-1960s, Urartian sites in northwest Iran were excavated. In 1976, an Italian team led by Mirjo Salvini finally reached the Kelishin stele, accompanied by a heavy military escort. The Gulf War then closed these sites to archaeological research. Oktay Belli resumed excavation of Urartian sites on Turkish territory: in 1989 Ayanis, a 7th c. BC fortress built by Rusas II of Urartu, was discovered 35 km north of Van. In spite of excavations, only a third to a half of the 300 known Urartian sites in Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Armenia have been examined by archaeologists (Wartke 1993). Without protection, many sites have been plundered by local residents searching for treasure and other saleable antiquities.

History[link]

Origins[link]

Urartu under Aramu 860-40 BC

Assyrian inscriptions of Shalmaneser I (ca. 1274 BC) first mention Uruartri as one of the states of Nairi – a loose confederation of small kingdoms and tribal states in Armenian Highland in the 13th – 11th centuries BC which he conquered. Uruartri itself was in the region around Lake Van. The Nairi states were repeatedly subjected to further attacks and invasions by the Assyrians, especially under Tukulti-Ninurta I (ca. 1240 BC), Tiglath-Pileser I (ca. 1100 BC), Ashur-bel-kala (ca. 1070 BC), Adad-nirari II (ca. 900), Tukulti-Ninurta II (ca. 890), and Ashurnasirpal II (883–859 BC).

Urartu re-emerged in Assyrian inscriptions in the 9th c. BC as a powerful northern rival of Assyria. The Nairi states and tribes became a unified kingdom under king Aramu (ca. 860–843 BC), whose capital at Arzashkun was captured by the Assyrians under Shalmaneser III. Roughly contemporaries of the Uruartri, living just to the west along the southern shore of the Black Sea, were the Kaskas known from Hittite sources.

Growth[link]

Fragment of a bronze helmet from Argishti I's era. The "tree of life", popular among the ancient societies, is depicted. The helmet was discovered during the excavations of the fortress Of Teyshebaini on Karmir-Blur (Red Hill).

The temporary eclipse of Assyria in the first half of the eight century B.C., had helped Urartu's growth, as it became the largest and most powerful state in the Near East, all this was done in little time.^[17]

Sarduri I (ca. 832–820 BC), son of king Aramu, successfully resisted the Assyrian attacks from the south, led by Shalmaneser III, consolidated the military power of the state and moved the capital to Tushpa (modern Van, on the shore of Lake Van). His son, Ispuini (ca. 820–800 BC) annexed the neighbouring state of Musasir and made his son Sarduri II viceroy; Musasir later became an important religious center of the Urartian Kingdom. Ispuini was in turn attacked by Shamshi-Adad V. His successor Menua (ca. 800–785 BC) also enlarged the kingdom greatly and left inscriptions over a wide area. Urartu reached highest point of its military might under Menua's son Argishti I (ca. 785–760 BC), becoming one of the most powerful kingdoms of ancient Near East. Argishti I added more territories along the Araxes river and Lake Sevan, and frustrated Shalmaneser IV's campaigns against him. Argishti also founded several new cities, most notably Erebuni in 782 BC. 6600 captured slaves worked on the construction of the new city.^{[citation needed]}

At its height, the Urartu kingdom may have stretched North beyond the Aras River (Greek Araxes) and Lake Sevan, encompassing present-day Armenia and even the southern part of Georgia (e.g. Qulha) almost to the shores of the Black Sea; west to the sources of the Euphrates; east to present-day Tabriz, Lake Urmia, and beyond; and south to the sources of the Tigris.

Tiglath Pileser III of Assyria conquered Urartu in the first year of his reign (745 BC). There the Assyrians found horsemen and horses, tamed as colts for riding, that were unequalled in the south, where they were harnessed to Assyrian war-chariots.^[18]

Decline and recuperation[link]

In 714 BC, the Urartu kingdom suffered heavily from Cimmerian raids and the campaigns of Sargon II. The main temple at Mushashir was sacked, and the Urartian king Rusa I was crushingly defeated by Sargon II at Lake Urmia. He subsequently committed suicide in shame. ^[19]

Rusa's son Argishti II (714 – 685 BC) restored Urartu's position against the Cimmerians, however it was no longer a threat to Assyria and peace was made with the new king of Assyria Sennacherib in 705 BC. This in turn helped Urartu enter a long period of development and prosperity, which continued through the reign of Argishti's son Rusa II (685–645 BC).

After Rusa II, however, the Urartu grew weaker under constant attacks from Cimmerian and Scythian invaders. As a result it became dependent on Assyria, as evidenced by Rusa II's son Sardur III (645–635 BC) referring to the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal as his "father." ^[20][21]

Fall[link]

According to Urartian epigraphy, Sarduri III was followed by three kings—Erimena (635–620 BC), his son Rusa III (620–609 BC), and the latter's son Rusa IV (609–590 or 585 BC). Late during the 600s BC (during or after Sardur III's reign), Urartu was invaded by Scythians and their allies—the Medes. In 612 BC, the Median king Cyaxares the Great together with Nabopolassar of Babylon and the Scythians conquered Assyria after it had been badly weakened by civil war. Many Urartian ruins of the period show evidence of destruction by fire. This would indicate two scenarios—either Media subsequently conquered Urartu, bringing about its subsequent demise, or Urartu maintained its independence and power, going through a mere dynastic change, as a local Armenian dynasty (later to be called the Orontids) overthrew the ruling family with the help of the Median army. Ancient sources support the latter version: Xenophon, for example, states that Armenia, ruled by an Orontid king, was not conquered until the reign of Median king Astyages (585– 550 BC) – long after Median invasion of the late 7th century BC.^[22] Similarly, Strabo (1st c. BC – 1st c AD) wrote that "[i]n ancient times Greater Armenia ruled the whole of Asia, after it broke up the empire of the Syrians, but later, in the time of Astyages, it was deprived of that great authority ..." ^[23]

Medieval Armenian chronicles corroborate the Greek and Hebrew sources. In particular, Movses Khorenatsi writes that Armenian prince Paruyr Skayordi helped the Median king Cyaxares and his allies conquer Assyria, for which Cyaxares recognized him as the king of Armenia, while Media conquered Armenia only much later—under Astyages.^[24] It is possible that the last Urartian king, Rusa IV, had connections to the future incoming Armenian Orontids dynasty.^{[citation needed]}

Urartu was destroyed in either 590 BC^[25] or 585 BC.^[26] By the late sixth century, Urartu had certainly been replaced by Armenia.^[27]

Legacy[link]

Little is known of what happened to the region of Urartu under the foreign rule following its fall. The most widely accepted theory is that settlers related to Phrygians, or more specifically tribes speaking a proto-Armenian language conventionally named Armeno-Phrygians, who had already settled in the western parts of the region prior to the establishment of Urartu,^[28] had become the ruling elite under the Medes, followed by the Achaemenid Persians.^[29] These Armeno-Phrygians, referred to as Armenians as of now, would have mingled with the disparate peoples of Urartu, resulting a fusion of languages and cultures. The Armenians multiplied in numbers and spread their language throughout the territory of Urartu. The Urartians, during its dominance, had amalgamated disparate tribes, each of which had its own culture and traditions. Thus, when the political structure was destroyed, little remained that could be identified as one unified Urartian culture.^[30] The region formerly known as Urartu became an Achaemenid satrapy called Armina,^[31] which later became an independent kingdom called Armenia. The Urartians who were in the satrapy were then assimilated, becoming part of the Armenian ethnogenesis.^{[citation needed]} However, other Urartians might have kept their former identity. According to Herodotus, the Alarodians (Alarodioi)—believed to be Urartian remnants—were part of the 18th Satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire and formed a special contingent in the grand army of Xerxes I.^[32] Some Urartian traditions, such as architecture and dam constructions, were absorbed in the following Persianates,^[33] and most probably persisted in the Satrapy of Armina. Urartu did not give birth to a direct successor, however, the Satrapy of Armina, as an entity which emerged immediately after its fall, inherited its cultural, traditional, geographical and some linguistic aspects. Darius I the Great, in his famous Behistun Inscription, calls the region Armina/Armenia in Old Persian and Urashtu/Urartu in Babylonian, clearly equating the two, suggesting that both are somewhat part of a same continuous entity. As the Armenian identity developed in the region, the memory of Urartu faded and finally disappeared.^[34]

The language spoken in Urartu is now extinct. Little is known of what was spoken in the geopolitical region from the time of Urartu's fall in the 6th century BC, to the creation of the Armenian alphabet in the 4th century AD. In ancient Persian inscriptions, references to Armina (Armenia) indicate that Urartian was still spoken, or was in a transitional period into being replaced with the Armenian language. In fact, the ethnonym "Armina" itself and all other names attested with reference to the rebellions against Darius in Armina (the proper names Araxa, Haldita, and Dādṛšiš, the toponyms Zūzahya, Tigra, and Uyamā, and the district name Autiyāra) are not connected with Armenian linguistic and onomastic material attested later in native Armenian sources. They are also not Iranian, but seem related to Urartean.^[35]

The name of the province of Ayrarat in the Kingdom of Armenia is believed to be a continuum of the Urartu toponym (or Biblical Ararat).^[36] The modern name of Mount Ararat is derived from the Biblical Mountains of Ararat (or Mountains of Urartu), and the Ararat Province of modern Armenia is in turn named after the mountain.

Economy and politics[link]

The economic structure of Urartu was similar to other states of the Ancient World, especially to Assyria. The state was heavily dependent on agriculture, which required a centralized effort to irrigation. These works managed by kings, in their implementation participated the free inhabitants, and perhaps the prisoners as slaves. Royal governors, influent people and, perhaps, free peoples have their own allotments. Individual territories within the state had to pay taxes the central government grain, horses, bulls, etc. In peacetime, Urartu probably led an active trade with Assyria, providing there cattle, horses, iron and wine.

Agriculture in Urartu

Part of iron pitchfork, found near Lake Van and Iron plowshare, found during excavations in Rusahinili (Toprakkale).				Urartian grain bruiser

Agriculture and horticulture[link]

According to archaeological data farming on the territory of Urartu began to develop since the Neolithic period, even in the III millennium BC. In Urartian age agriculture was well developed and closely related to the Assyrian on the selection of cultures and ways of processing.^[37] From cuneiform sources is known that in Urartu grew wheat, barley, sesame, millet and emmer, and cultivated gardens and vineyards. Many regions of the Urartu state required artificial irrigation, which has successfully been organized by the rulers of Urartu in the heyday of the state. In several regions remain ancient irrigation canals, constructed by Urartu, mainly during the Argishti I and Menua period, some of them are still used for irrigation.

Religion[link]

Depiction of the Urartian god Khaldi

With the expansion of Urartian territory, many of the gods worshiped by conquered peoples were incorporated into the Urartian pantheon, as a mean to confirm the annexation of territories and promote political stability. However, although the Urartians incorporated many deities into their pantheon, they appeared to be selective in their choices. Although many different Urartian kings made conquests in the North, such as the Sevan region, many of those peoples' gods remain excluded. This was most likely the case because Urartians considered the people in the North to be barbaric, and disliked their deities as much as they did them. Good examples of incorporated deities however are the goddesses Bagvarti (Bagmashtu) and Selardi. On Mheri-Dur, or Meher-Tur (the "Gate of Mehr"), overlooking modern Van, an inscription lists a total of 79 deities, and what type of sacrificial offerings should be made to each; goats, sheep, cattle, and other animals served as the sacrificial offerings. Urartians did not practice human sacrifice.^[38]

The pantheon was headed by a triad made up of Khaldi (the supreme god), Theispas (Teisheba) god of thunder and storms, as well as sometimes war, and Shivini a solar god. Their king was also the chief-priest or envoy of Khaldi. Some temples to Khaldi were part of the royal palace complex while others were independent structures.

Some of the main gods and goddesses include:^[39]

• Khaldi
• Teisheba
• Shivini
• Arubani
• Tushpuea
• Bagvarti
• Selardi

Language[link]

Urartian, the language used in the cuneiform inscriptions of Urartu, was an ergative-agglutinative language, which belongs to neither the Semitic nor the Indo-European families but to the Hurro-Urartian family. It survives in many inscriptions found in the area of the Urartu kingdom, written in the Assyrian cuneiform script. There are also claims of autochthonous Urartian hieroglyphs, but this remains uncertain.^[40]

Urartian cuneiform tablet recording the foundation of Erebuni Fortress by Argishti.

The Urartians originally used the locally-developed hieroglyphs (not yet deciphered) but later adapted the Assyrian cuneiform script for most purposes. After the 8th century BC, the hieroglyphic script was restricted to religious and accounting purposes. Examples of Urartian written language have survived in many inscriptions found throughout the area of the Urartu kingdom.

Urartian cuneiform inscriptions are divided into two groups. A minority is written in Akkadian (the official language of Assyria). However, the bulk of the cuneiforms are written in an agglutinative language, conventionally called Urartian, Khaldian, or neo-Hurrian, which was related to Hurrian in the Hurro-Urartian family, and was neither Semitic nor Indo-European. It had close linguistic similarities to Northeast Caucasian languages.^[41][42][43] Igor Diakonov even places it in the Alarodian family, based on linguistic similarities with Northeast Caucasian languages. A more distant connection among Urartian and the modern Georgian language and Circassian have been postulated as well.

Currently, the number of known Urartian cuneiform inscriptions is more than 1000^{[citation needed]}. They contain around 350–400 words, most of which are Urartian, while some are loan words from other languages. The greatest number of foreign loan words in Urartian language is from Armenian—around 70 word-roots.^[44] The greatest number of common words with Urartean is in Northeast Caucasian language family. (169 word-roots) ^[45]

Unlike the cuneiform inscriptions, Urartuan hieroglyphic texts have not been successfully deciphered. As a result, scholars disagree as to what language is used in the texts. In mid-1990s, Armenian scientist Artak Movsisyan published a partial attempted deciphering of Urartian hieroglyphs, suggesting that they were written in an early form of Armenian.^[46]

Armenian ethnogenesis[link]

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The Iron Age Urartian state was the successor of the Late Bronze Age Hurrian state of Mitanni, and the Urartian language spoken by the ruling class is the successor of the Hurrian language (see Hurro-Urartian).^[42][47] The Urartian state was in turn succeeded in the area in the 6th century BC by the Orontid Armenian kingdom,.^[48] The presence of a Proto-Armenian population in the area already during Urartian rule is subject to speculation: It is generally assumed that Proto-Armenian speakers entered Anatolia from around 1200 BC, ultimately deriving from a Paleo-Balkans context, and over the following centuries spread east to the Armenian Highland.^[49][50][51] A competing theory suggested by Thomas Gamkrelidze and Vyacheslav V. Ivanov in 1984 places the Proto-Indo-European homeland in the Armenian Highland, see Armenian hypothesis, which would entail the presence of Proto-Armenians in the area during the entire lifetime of the Urartian state.^[52]

After the disappearance of Urartu as a political entity, the Armenians dominated the highlands, absorbing portions of the previous Urartian culture in the process.^[53] The Armenians became, thus, the direct successors of the kingdom of Urartu and inherited their domain. Urartu is to Armenians what ancient Britons are to the English, and Gauls are to the French.^[54]

While the Urartian language was spoken by the royal elite, the population they ruled may have been multi-ethnic, and in late Urartian times largely (pre-Proto-)Armenian-speaking.^[55] Under this theory, the Armenian-speaking population were the descendants of the proto-Armenians who migrated to the Armenian Highland in ca. the 7th century BC, mixing with the local Hurrian-speaking population (i.e. the "Phrygian theory," first suggested by Herodotus).

A minority belief, advocated primarily by the official historiography of Armenia, but also supported by experts in Assyrian and Urartian studies such as Igor Diakonov, Giorgi Melikishvili, Mikhail Nikolsky Ivan Mestchaninov, suggests that Urartian was solely the formal written language of the state, while its inhabitants, including the royal family, spoke Armenian.^[49] The theory primarily hinges on the language the Urartian cuneiform inscriptions being very repetitive and scant in vocabulary (having as little as 350–400 roots). Furthermore, over 250 years of usage, it shows no development, which is taken to indicate that the language had ceased to be spoken before the time of the inscriptions or was used only for official purposes.^[49] This belief is compatible with the "Armenian hypothesis" suggested by Vyacheslav Ivanov and Tamaz Gamkrelidze (1984), postulating the Armenian language as an in situ development of a 3rd millennium BC Proto-Indo-European language.^[52]

According to the Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture:

The Armenians according to Diakonoff, are then an amalgam of the Hurrian (and Urartians), Luvians and the Proto-Armenian Mushki who carried their IE language eastwards across Anatolia. After arriving in its historical territory, Proto-Armenian would appear to have undergone massive influence on part the languages it eventually replaced. Armenian phonology, for instance, appears to have been greatly affected by Urartian, which may suggest a long period of bilingualism.^[56]

Urartu has come to play a role in 19th to 20th century Armenian nationalism.^[57]

See also[link]

Ancient Near East portal

• Economy of Urartu
• Armenia
• Chaldia
• Hurro-Urartian languages
• List of kings of Urartu
• Mount Ararat
• Nakh-Daghestanian Languages
• Proto-Armenian language
• Turkey

References[link]

Footnotes[link]

Literature[link]

• Ashkharbek Kalantar, Materials on Armenian and Urartian History (with a contribution by Mirjo Salvini), Civilisations du Proche-Orient: Series 4 – Hors Série, Neuchâtel, Paris, 2004;ISBN 978-2-940032-14-3
• Boris B. Piotrovsky, The Ancient Civilization of Urartu (translated from Russian by James Hogarth), New York:Cowles Book Company, 1969.
• M. Salvini, Geschichte und Kultur der Urartäer, Darmstadt 1995.
• R. B. Wartke, Urartu — Das Reich am Ararat In: Kulturgeschichte der Antiken Welt, Bd. 59, Mainz 1993.
• P. E. Zimansky, Ecology and Empire: The Structure of the Urartian State, [Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization], Chicago: Oriental Institute, 1985.
• P. E. Zimansky, Ancient Ararat. A Handbook of Urartian Studies, New York 1998.

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• Capital and Periphery in the Kingdom of Urartu, Yehuda Dagan, Israel Antiquities Authority

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v t e Urartu topics Language Urartian language  · Hurro-Urartian languages  · Kelashin Stele  · Cuneiform script  · Anatolian Hieroglyphs Urartu at its greatest expanse, ca. 743 BC Kings Aramu  · Lutipri  · Sarduri I  · Ishpuini  · Argishti I  · Sarduri II  · Rusa I  · Argishti II  · Rusa II  · Sarduri III  · Erimena  · Rusa III  · Sarduri IV  · Rusa IV Cities and Fortresses Argistinikhili  · Arzashkun1  · Bastam  · Erebuni  · Haykaberd  · Horom  · Kelashin  · Musasir  · Rusahinili  · Sugunia  · Teishebaini  · Teyseba  · Tushpa2  · Van Mythology Artinis  · Bagvarti  · Khaldi  · Selardi  · Siwini  · Theispas

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Argishti I (Armenian: Արգիշտի, Argishti) was the sixth known king of Urartu, reigning from 786 BC to 764 BC. He founded the citadel of Erebuni in 782 BC, which is the present capital of Armenia, Yerevan.^[1]

A son and the successor of Menua, he continued the series of conquests initiated by his predecessors. Victorious against Assyria, he conquered the northern part of Syria and made Urartu the most powerful state in the post-Hittite Near East. He also expanded his kingdom north to the Lake Sevan conquering much of Diauehi and the Ararat Valley.^[2] Argishtis built the Erebuni Fortress in 782 BC, and the fortress of Argishtikhinili in 776 BC.

He was succeeded by his son, Sarduri II.

Some linguists believe that the name Argištiše has Indo-European etymology (Armenian). Compare Armenian արեգ (translit. areg) – “sun deity”, “sun”.

References[link]

Further reading[link]

• N. Adontz, Historie d'Arménie, les origines, Paris, 1946

See also[link]

Ancient Near East portal

• List of kings of Urartu

External links[link]

• Erebouni at Armenica.org
• Erebuni - Cuneiform Foundations

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Vic Darchinyan
Statistics
Real name	Vakhtang Darchinyan
Nickname(s)	The Raging Bull
Rated at	Flyweight Super Flyweight Bantamweight
Height	5 ft 5 1⁄2 in (1.66 m)
Reach	64+1⁄2 in (164 cm)
Nationality	Armenian Australian
Born	(1976-01-07) 7 January 1976 (age 36) Vanadzor, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union
Stance	Southpaw
Boxing record
Total fights	43
Wins	37
Wins by KO	27
Losses	5
Draws	1
No contests	0 Official site

Medal record
Men’s Boxing
Competitor for  Armenia
European Amateur Championships
Bronze	1998 Minsk	Flyweight
Goodwill Games
Bronze	1998 New York	Flyweight

Vakhtang "Vic" Darchinyan (Armenian: Վախթանգ Դարչինյան; born 7 January 1976 in Vanadzor, Armenia) is an Armenian professional boxer. He is a three-division world champion, having won eight titles in three different weight classes. He is a former IBF Flyweight Champion and a former Undisputed WBA, WBC & IBF Super Flyweight Champion. He has also captured a record of 4 IBO titles in three weight classes. He is a southpaw boxer who currently trains with Angelo Hyder. He was previously trained by former 3-division world champion, Jeff Fenech, in Sydney and briefly by Billy Hussein. Fenech and Darchinyan are the only Australian 3-division world champions in history.

On 16 December 2004, Vic Darchinyan became the first ethnic Armenian to capture a world title when he defeated the previously unbeaten and defending IBF Flyweight Champion, Irene Pacheco of Colombia, by eleventh round TKO.

Personal life[link]

Darchinyan was born on 7 January 1976, in Vanadzor, Armenia. His father, Ruben Darchinyan, was an Olympic wrestling coach for Armenia. Ruben's name can sometimes be seen on Vic's boxing trunks. Vic has a sister named Liana.^[1]

Vic wanted to become a boxer at the age of 5 and dreamed of becoming a world champion in the professionals. His father told him there was no professional boxing in Armenia (or any Soviet countries; this changed when the Union fell in 1991) and instead wanted Vic to follow in his footsteps and take up wrestling. Vic also wrestled as a kid, but always continued to say he would become a world champion someday. He eventually left wrestling in pursuit of his dream to become a world boxing champion.^[2]

Darchinyan and his wife Olga, an English teacher, met near an Opera House in Sydney in 2001 when Vic was invited to fight for Australia. They got married a year later. In 2007, the couple had a son named Ruben II.^[3]

Amateur career[link]

Vic began boxing at the age of 8 within the community of Vanadzor, where boxing was very popular. He was trained by the experienced Vazgen Badalyan.^[4] Darchinyan's amateur career record was 158-18 with 105 knockouts.^[5] Vic fought in many different countries and participated for Armenia in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia. He went to the third round in the 112 lb division before losing against Bulat Jumadilov of Kazakhstan. Darchinyan moved to Australia after competing in the Olympics and eventually became an Australian citizen on 7 July 2004. Darchinyan turned pro at the age of 24 on 3 November 2000.

Olympic Results[link]

• Defeated opponent
• Defeated Ilfat Ryazapov (Russia) 20-11
• Lost to Bulat Jumadilov (Kazakhstan) 8-15

Professional career[link]

Flyweight Division[link]

Vic is promoted by Gary Shaw Promotions and HyeFighters. From November 2000 to December 2004, Vic built up a record of 21-0 (16 ko's) and captured the Australian, Oceanic & Pan Pacific Flyweight titles. After knocking out former 2-division world champion Wandee Singwancha in an IBF eliminator, he earned the IBF #1 mandatory ranking.

First world title[link]

He won his IBF title on 16 December 2004 in his first fight in the United States, beating respected champion Irene Pacheco of Colombia, via 11th round technical knock-out. Pacheco had held the title for over 5 years.
Returning to Australia, his first title defense was against long time contender and IBO belt holder, Mzukisi Sikali, in a crowd-pleasing brawl. By the 8th round, Sikali took a combination body & head shots and turned away in a 'No Mas' fashion, prompting referee Pete Podgorski to step in and wave it off.
Attempting to secure a fight in the USA, Vic took a stay-busy fight defending his title against fringe contender Jair Jimenez, whom he floored him in round 4. The referee stopped fight in the 5th after Jimenez started to walk away from the fight.
Returning to the USA headlining on ShoBox: The New Generation, his third title defense was against Filipino contender Diosdado Gabi. Vic knocked him out with a single straight left in the 8th round.
Three months later, returning to Showtime after the hotly contested Jose Luis Castillo Vs Diego Corrales rubber match fell through, Vic's defense against then-undefeated Mexican contender Luis Maldonado was moved to the main event. He stopped the tough Mexican in the 8th round.
In his fifth title defense, Vic faced Glenn Donaire. Glenn gave up after Vic broke his jaw in the 6th round from an alleged elbow attack. Replays show no evidence of an elbow. Darchinyan's camp, though winners by technical decision, have always claimed this should have been a legitimate knockout.
In his sixth title defense, Darchinyan faced former Light Flyweight World Champion Victor Burgos. Vic knocked Burgos down in the second round and stopped him in the twelfth round. Victor later underwent surgery to remove a blood clot from his brain. Burgos was put into a medically induced coma and made a full recovery. However, he was not able to fight again.
In 2007, Darchinyan suffered his first defeat from Nonito Donaire, younger brother of Glenn Donaire, in a title bout via TKO. Darchinyan was caught with a left hook which floored him, in an exchange with Donaire in the fifth round. Darchinyan managed to get up but immediately fell on the ropes and the referee stopped the fight. Darchinyan lost the IBF and IBO flyweight titles to Donaire. The match was eventually awarded Knockout of the Year and Upset of the Year by Ring Magazine.

Super Flyweight Division[link]

Darchinyan returned 3 months later and won the vacant IBO Super Flyweight title by stopping Filipino veteran Federico Catubay. Catubay was knocked down in round 7 & 11. Vic decided to outbox and outpunch his larger opponent and finally finished him off in round 12. He voluntarily relinquished the IBO title prior to fighting in an IBF eliminator.

On 2 February 2008, Darchinyan fought Z Gorres to a controversial split draw at the Waterfront Hotel in Cebu City, Philippines in an IBF Super Flyweight Eliminator where the winner would challenge the champion Dimitri Kirilov. The bout began with a knockdown for Darchinyan in the first round, which appeared to be a slip by Gorres when replayed. The crowd was upset with the referee calling the slip a knockdown and began to pelt the ring with bottles of water, coins and other objects. Gorres came back in the second round to floor Darchinyan with a left hand, but Darchinyan beat the count, which again prompted some arena fans to pelt the ring with objects. Gorres was knocked down in the fifth round, but the referee ruled it a slip. A clash of heads in the sixth round opened up a bad gash on Gorres. In the ninth round, Darchinyan connected with a right hand, sending Gorres down for the second time in the fight. Gorres would fall to the canvas on at least three other occasions in the final three rounds, with the referee ruling all of them slips. The final scores were 113-112 for Gorres, 114-112 for Darchinyan, and 113-113 for the draw.^[6] Darchinyan's promoter, Gary Shaw, filed an official protest with the IBF over the officiating of the bout.^[7]

Despite the draw, Darchinyan earned the right to take on Kirilov for being higher in the ratings and willing to accept the fight.

Second world title[link]

Six months later, Darchinyan was back in what most experts called a career-best performance, taking on IBF Super Flyweight Champion Dimitri Kirilov at the Emerald Queen Casino in Tacoma Washington. Darchinyan dominated from the opening bell and showed an improvement in speed and boxing skill. He eventually caught Kirilov in round 5, dropping him twice enroute to a round KO. Darchinyan was ahead 40-36 on all three judges' scorecards.

Super Flyweight Unification & Title Defenses[link]

On 1 November 2008, Darchinyan fought WBC and WBA Super Flyweight Champion Cristian Mijares at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California. Darchinyan was the aggressor from the outset, getting inside with big punches, including a left uppercut that knocked Mijares down in the first round. With his unorthodox crouching style, Darchinyan seemed to confuse Mijares, who was often content to counterpunch rather than attack.^[8] Mijares connected with just one combination the entire fight, that during a brief span of the fifth round. Darchinyan, however, was unhurt and unfazed. In the ninth round, Darchinyan caught Mijares with a right hand. Then as Mijares backed away, Darchinyan lunged and landed a straight left hand that knocked out Mijares.^[9] Darchinyan became the first man in history to unify the titles in the weight class.^[10] With the victory, Darchinyan matched Kostya Tszyu's accomplishment as the only two Australians to capture Undisputed World Championships.

On 7 February 2009, Darchinyan successfully defended his undisputed WBC, WBA and IBF titles against multiple time champion Jorge Arce, winning by TKO in the 11th round. The early rounds were somewhat competitive, but as each round progressed, Darchinyan asserted his dominance more and more. In the 11th round, the doctor stopped the bout because Arce was severely cut on both eyes.

On 12 December 2009, having vacated his IBF belt in an unsuccessful attempt to move up to bantamweight, Darchinyan successfully defended his unified WBC and WBA title against Interim Champion Tomás Rojas, winning by KO in the 2nd round. Rojas would go on to capture the WBC belt shortly after Vic vacated it.

On 6 March 2010, Darchinyan successfully defended his unified WBC and WBA titles against Rodrigo Guerrero, winning a unanimous decision. Guerrero would go on to capture the IBF belt in 2011.

On 21 June 2009, Darchinyan was rated the #8 best pound for pound boxer in the world by The Ring.

Bantamweight Division[link]

While retaining his WBC and WBA super flyweight belts, Darchinyan vacated his IBF belt in order to move up to bantamweight to fight IBF Champion Joseph Agbeko in Sunrise, Florida on 11 July 2009. He lost a unanimous decision in a fight he looked almost too overly aggressive in and couldn't seem to cope with the Ghanan's style and repeatedly walked into straight right hands. Agbeko spoiled Darchinyan's goal of winning his third world title in a different division. Two judges scored the bout 114-113 for Agbeko, while the third had it for the Ghanaian Agbeko, 116-111. Despite the defeat at bantamweight, Darchinyan was still recognized as Super Flyweight Champion by both the WBC and WBA.

In May 2010 Darchinyan won the vacant IBO Bantamweight title with a one-sided unanimous decision victory in his adopted land of Australia over Eric Barcelona. Barcelona was knocked down twice in the fifth round, once in the eleventh round and deducted a point in each the sixth and twelfth rounds.

Following the win, it was soon announced that Darchinyan would take part in Showtime's four man bantamweight tournament, along with Joseph Agbeko, Abner Mares and IBF Bantamweight Champion Yonnhy Perez. Vic lost in the semi-finals against México's Mares via controversial split decision. Darchinyan dominated Mares in first half of the fight. Mares was knocked down once in the second round and deducted a point in the fourth round for low blows. Mares had been throwing dirty punches the entire fight, however, and continued to do so, being warned 16 more times after the point deduction.^[11] The referee continued to turn a blind eye to Mares' low blows and, as a result, Mares started winning rounds. Darchinyan was knocked down once in the seventh round out of pain from low blows. When the win was announced for Mares, the audience seemed surprised, as many felt Darchinyan had won this fight.^[12]

In the consolation bout, Darchinyan rocked Perez in round one, knocked him down in round two and was in command all the way. Perez had his moments but wasn't able to hold off Darchinyan's aggression. The bout ended when Perez was cut by an accidental headbutt at 1:07 of round five. Scores were 50-44 on all cards. Darchinyan dedicated his victory to the lives lost in the 1915 Armenian Genocide, as well as the Australians that perished in Anzac Day for the following day. On 24 April, one day after his fight, he joined thousands of Armenian Americans on the streets of Los Angeles in a march to commemorate the Genocide. Vic was later honored at the Armenian National Committee of America Annual Banquet on 26 November.^[13] He was rated #1 contender by the WBA shortly after the fight.

In September, for a homecoming bout in Armenia, Vic battered tough African contender Evans Mbamba (18-2, 9 KOs) for twelve one-sided rounds (Darchinyan won 120-107 on two cards and 119-107 on the third), maintaining the mandatory WBA #1 position & gaining WBO #1 spot shortly after. Mbamba was knocked down once in the first round.

In a bantamweight double header (an extension of Showtime's Bantamweight Tournament), Vic faced WBA (Super) Champion Anselmo Moreno on 3 December 2011 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California. Moreno took adavantage of his longer reach and height by fighting Darchinyan from the outside while ducking and weaving the whole fight. Darchinyan was deducted one point in round 4 for throwing Moreno to the ground. Moreno hit Darchinyan with a low blow and was not deducted a point, even though the referee gave Darchinyan time to recuperate. The three judges scored a lopsided unanimous decision win to Moreno.

On 6 April 2012, Darchinyan lost to WBC Bantamweight Champion Shinsuke Yamanaka in Yamanaka's home country of Japan. The fight was not without controversy. Darchinyan was slightly ahead on one card and the other two were even after the fourth round. In the fourth, a clash of heads opened a bloody cut on Darchinyan's eyebrow and nose. Yamanaka hit Darchinyan with an elbow on the same eyebrow in round five, severing the cut. The referee was not in line of sight to see this. Blood was pouring more rapidly out of Darchinyan's eyebrow afterward and the ringside doctor examined it. A fight would usually be stopped and given a technical decision at this point, but the cut was controversially ruled to have been caused by a punch by the ringside doctor, who examined the cut in the sixth round, when Darchinyan was ahead on points. Darchinyan, fighting with blood in his eyes for the rest of the fight, lost via decision. The headbutt and elbow thrown by Yamanaka had raised much controversy, as Darchinyan was winning the fight beforehand and his proformence seemed to slow down as consequence. The result is currently being protested by Team Darchinyan with photographic proof Yamanaka used an illegal headbutt and elbow.^[14]

Professional boxing record[link]

37 Wins (27 knockouts, 10 decisions), 5 Losses (1 knockout, 4 decisions), 1 Draw[15]
Res.	Record	Opponent	Type	Round	Date	Location	Notes
Loss	37-5-1	Shinsuke Yamanaka	UD	12	2012-04-06	Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan	For WBC Bantamweight title.
Loss	37-4-1	Anselmo Moreno	UD	12	2011-12-03	Honda Center, Anaheim, California, United States	For WBA (Super) Bantamweight title.
Win	37-3-1	Evans Mbamba	UD	12	2011-09-03	Karen Demirchyan Complex, Yerevan, Armenia	Retained IBO Bantamweight title.
Win	36-3-1	Yonnhy Pérez	TD	5 (12)	2011-04-23	Nokia Theater, Los Angeles, California, United States	Won vacant IBO Bantamweight title. Fight stopped due to a Perez cut from an accidental headbutt.
Loss	35-3-1	Abner Mares	SD	12	2010-12-11	Emerald Queen Casino, Tacoma, Washington, United States	Lost IBO Bantamweight title. For vacant WBC Silver Bantamweight title.
Win	35-2-1	Eric Barcelona	UD	12	2010-05-20	Leagues Club, Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia	Won vacant IBO Bantamweight title.
Win	34-2-1	Rodrigo Guerrero	UD	12	2010-03-06	Agua Caliente Casino, Rancho Mirage, California, United States	Retained WBC & WBA Super Flyweight titles.
Win	33-2-1	Tomás Rojas	KO	2 (12)	2009-12-12	Agua Caliente Casino, Rancho Mirage, California, United States	Retained WBC & WBA Super Flyweight titles.
Loss	32-2-1	Joseph Agbeko	UD	12	2009-07-11	BankAtlantic Center, Sunrise, Florida, United States	For IBF Bantamweight title.
Win	32-1-1	Jorge Arce	RTD	11 (12)	2009-02-07	Honda Center, Anaheim, California, United States	Retained IBF, WBC & WBA Super Flyweight titles. Doctor stopped the fight at end of 11th on cuts to both of Arce's eyes.
Win	31-1-1	Cristian Mijares	KO	9 (12)	2008-11-01	Home Depot Center, Carson, California, United States	Retained IBF & won WBC & WBA Super Flyweight titles.
Win	30-1-1	Dimitri Kirilov	KO	5 (12)	2008-08-02	Emerald Queen Casino, Tacoma, Washington, United States	Won IBF Super Flyweight title.
Draw	29-1-1	Z Gorres	SD	12	2008-02-02	Cebu City Waterfront Hotel & Casino, Barangay Lahug, Cebu City, Philippines	IBF Super Flyweight Title Eliminator.
Win	29–1	Federico Catubay	TKO	12 (12)	2007-10-20	Auburn RSL Club, Auburn, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	Won vacant IBO Super Flyweight title & vacant IBF Australasian Super Flyweight title.
Loss	28–1	Nonito Donaire	TKO	5 (12)	2007-07-07	Harbour Yard Arena, Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States	Lost IBF & IBO Flyweight titles.
Win	28–0	Victor Burgos	TKO	12 (12)	2007-03-03	Home Depot Center, Carson, California, United States	Retained IBF & IBO Flyweight titles.
Win	27–0	Glenn Donaire	TD	6 (12)	2006-10-07	Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States	Retained IBF & IBO Flyweight titles.
Win	26–0	Luis Maldonado	TKO	8 (12)	2006-06-03	Thomas & Mack Center, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States	Retained IBF & IBO Flyweight titles.
Win	25–0	Diosdado Gabi	TKO	8 (12)	2006-03-03	Chumash Casino, Santa Ynez, California, United States	Retained IBF & IBO Flyweight titles.
Win	24–0	Jair Jimenez	TKO	5 (12)	2005-08-24	Entertainment Centre, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	Retained IBF & IBO Flyweight titles.
Win	23–0	Mzukisi Sikali	TKO	8 (12)	2005-03-27	State Sports Centre, Homebush Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	Retained IBF & won IBO Flyweight titles.
Win	22–0	Irene Pacheco	TKO	11 (12)	2004-12-16	Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Hollywood, Florida, United States	Won IBF Flyweight title.
Win	21–0	Falazona Fidal	TKO	2 (8)	2004-04-16	Basketball Stadium, Dandenong, Victoria, Australia
Win	20–0	Wandee Singwancha	KO	5 (12)	2003-12-12	Badgery's Pavilion, Homebush Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	IBF Flyweight Title Eliminator.
Win	19–0	Dozer Tobing	KO	11 (10)	2003-10-03	Badgery's Pavilion, Homebush Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Win	18–0	Alejandro Felix Montiel	UD	10	2003-08-08	Panthers World of Entertainment, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia
Win	17–0	Wandee Singwancha	TKO	4 (12)	2003-06-13	Auburn RSL Club, Auburn, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	Retained IBF Pan Pacific Flyweight title.
Win	16–0	Raul Eliseo Medina	TD	8 (12)	2003-04-11	Panthers World of Entertainment, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia	Retained IBF Pan Pacific Flyweight title. Bout stopped because of an accidental head clash.
Win	15–0	Phises Vor Surapol	TKO	3 (12)	2002-12-13	Rosehill Gardens Racecourse, Rosehill, New South Wales, Australia	Retained IBF Pan Pacific Flyweight title.
Win	14–0	Albert Resley	TKO	3 (8)	2002-11-09	Challenge Stadium, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Win	13–0	Hamadani Tomagola	KO	4 (?)	2002-10-25	Star City Casino, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Win	12–0	Panomdej Ohyuthanakorn	TKO	4 (12)	2002-08-02	Le Montage Function Centre, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	Won vacant IBF Pan Pacific Flyweight title.
Win	11–0	Farzan Ali Jr.	TKO	6 (12)	2002-06-14	Enmore Theatre, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	Corner retirement. Won Oceanic Boxing Association Bantamweight title.
Win	10–0	Prasob Nookliang	KO	2 (8)	2002-04-19	La Montage Function Centre, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Win	9–0	Win Nationman	TKO	3 (8)	2002-02-08	Le Montage Function Centre, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Win	8–0	Puna Eminent	KO	3 (8)	2001-11-16	Nineveh Sports Club, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Win	7–0	Sande Kizito	TKO	7 (10)	2001-10-18	Star City Casino, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	Won vacant Australian Flyweight title.
Win	6–0	Prasob Nookliang	TKO	6 (8)	2001-08-31	Eastern Suburbs Rugby League Club, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Win	5–0	David Picknell	KO	3 (?)	2001-08-03	Bellevue Function Centre, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Win	4–0	Sande Kizito	PTS	6 (6)	2001-06-29	Bellevue Function Centre, Bankstown, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Win	3–0	Selvio Glinoco	TKO	2 (6)	2001-04-20	Le Montage Function Centre, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Win	2–0	Hichem Blida	PTS	4 (4)	2001-02-09	Le Montage Events Centre, Leichhardt, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Win	1–0	Sande Kizito	PTS	6 (6)	2000-11-03	Star City Casino, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	Darchinyan's professional debut.