Urartu
Americannoun
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The northern side of the stone, facing the Urartu country, repeats the boast in Urartu.
From Time Magazine Archive
By comparing the identical inscriptions, the scholars of the University of Michigan hope to improve their knowledge of the Urartu language, and read from their ancient monuments the stone-written history of the ancient Urartu nation.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 735 B.C. he invaded Urartu, the great Armenian state which had threatened the supremacy of Assyria in north Syria and Cappadocia.
From Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Mackenzie, Donald Alexander
Thus was Urartu crippled and humiliated: it never regained its former prestige among the northern states.
From Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Mackenzie, Donald Alexander
It is therefore clear that the order was continued in the break which must have contained the most of the Urartu account and whatever was said about Syria.
From Assyrian Historiography by Olmstead, A. T. (Albert Ten Eyck)
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