By: Orhan Aytug Tasyurek
Urartians, who appear with the name “Uruadri” in the Assyrian cuneiform inscriptions after the 13th century B.C., had established a kingdom in Eastern Anatolia, Turkey, with its capital Tuspa (modern Van) in the beginning of the first millennium B.C. This kingdom became stronger from the 8th century B.C. onwards and expanded to Soviet Armenia and […]