The Ancient Urartian Kingdom of Armenia

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Urartu (/ʊˈrɑːrtuː/) is a geographical region commonly used as the exonym for the Iron Age kingdom also known by the modern rendition of its endonym, the Kingdom of Van, centered around Lake Van in the historic Armenian Highlands (present-day eastern Anatolia).

The written language that the kingdom's political elite used is referred to as Urartian, which appears in cuneiform inscriptions in Armenia and eastern Turkey. It is unknown what language was spoken by the peoples of Urartu at the time of the existence of the kingdom, but there is linguistic evidence of contact between the proto-Armenian language and the Urartian language at an early date (sometime between the 3rd—2nd millennium BC), occurring prior to the formation of Urartu as a kingdom.[2][3][4][5][6]

The kingdom rose to power in the mid-9th century BC, but went into gradual decline and was eventually conquered by the Iranian Medes in the early 6th century BC.[7] The geopolitical region would re-emerge as Armenia shortly after. Being heirs to the Urartian realm, the earliest identifiable ancestors of the Armenians are the peoples of Urartu.[5][8][9][10]

According to historian M. Chahin:[5]
Urartian history is part of Armenian history, in the same sense that the history of the ancient Britons is part of English history, and that of the Gauls is part of French history. Armenians can legitimately claim, through Urartu, an historical continuity of some 4000 years; their history is among those of the most ancient peoples in the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urartu...nt_communities

They are the ancestors of modern day Armenians which their ethnicity formed from admixture between the ancient Urartian people and the proto-Armenian people.

This is how their language sounded like:


Hell, I even got an ancient relative from there, lol.

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Urartu in 743 BC





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Urartian inscription on the foundation of the temple in Erebuni fortress on Arin-Berd hill near Yerevan

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Urartu in 743 BC





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Urartian inscription on the foundation of the temple in Erebuni fortress on Arin-Berd hill near Yerevan

You Armenians should be very proud of your ancient history

As you can see in the first post above, one of my closest ancient relatives came from that kingdom.

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You Armenians should be very proud of your ancient history

As you can see in the first post above, one of my closest ancient relatives came from that kingdom.

By the way, in the Behistun trilingual inscriptions of King Darius the First, which was created in the 6th century BC, Armenia was referred to as “Armina” in the ancient Persian language , as “Harminuya” in Elamic language and as “Urartu” in Babylonian language.

And by the way, Armenia is the only modern country found on the oldest ever created world map - the so-called Babylonian Map of the World of the 7th century BC.

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By the way, in the Behistun trilingual inscriptions of King Darius the First, which was created in the 6th century BC, Armenia was referred to as “Armina” in the ancient Persian language , as “Harminuya” in Elamic language and as “Urartu” in Babylonian language.

And by the way, Armenia is the only modern country found on the oldest ever created world map - the so-called Babylonian Map of the World of the 7th century BC.

Pretty much this.