Urartu | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 20/03/2019

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00:01:09 1 Name and etymology
00:04:02 1.1 Other names
00:05:29 2 History
00:05:38 2.1 Origins
00:07:09 2.2 Growth
00:09:26 2.3 Decline and recuperation
00:10:44 2.4 Fall
00:13:45 2.5 Legacy
00:14:56 3 Descendent communities
00:15:37 4 Geography
00:16:39 5 Discovery
00:22:17 6 Economy and politics
00:23:54 7 Art and architecture
00:25:23 8 Religion
00:27:14 9 Language
00:32:14 9.1 Presence of the Armenian language
00:36:58 10 See also



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Urartu (), which corresponds to the biblical mountains of Ararat, is the name of 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.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. 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.