page_title: Mannaeans
hierarchical_section_title: Mannaeans
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Albania, Iberia, Colchis, Armenia, Mesopotamia, Babylonia, Assyria. Corr. Menke 1863. W. Alt sc. Gothae: Justhus Perthes. Spruner-Menke atlas antiquus. (1865)
context_page_description: The Mannaeans were an ancient people who lived in the territory of present-day northwestern Iran south of lake Urmia, around the 10th to 7th centuries BC. At that time they were neighbors of the empires of Assyria and Urartu, as well as other small buffer states between the two, such as Musasir and Zikirta.
  In the Bible (Jeremiah 51:27) the Mannaeans are called Minni(מנּי). In the Jewish Encyclopedia (1906), Minni is identified with Armenia
  "According to the Peshiṭta and Targum Onkelos, the "Minni" of the Bible (Jer. li. 27) is Armenia—or rather a part of that country, as Ararat is also mentioned (Isa. xxxvii. 38; II Kings xix. 37) as a part of Armenia."
  , but it can also relate to one of the regions of ancient Armenia, such as Manavasean (Minyas). Together with Ararat and Ashkenaz, this is probably the same Minnie from the Assyrian inscriptions, corresponding to Manna. Armenia is interpreted by some specialist scholars as ḪARMinni, that is, the “mountain region of Minnie.”
context_section_description: The Mannaeans /məˈniːənz/ (country name usually Mannea; Akkadian: Mannai, Biblical Hebrew Minni, (מנּי) were an ancient people who lived in the territory of present-day northwestern Iran south of lake Urmia, around the 10th to 7th centuries BC. At that time they were neighbors of the empires of Assyria and Urartu, as well as other small buffer states between the two, such as Musasir and Zikirta.
  
  In the Bible (Jeremiah 51:27) the Mannaeans are called Minni(מנּי). In the Jewish Encyclopedia (1906), Minni is identified with Armenia
  "According to the Peshiṭta and Targum Onkelos, the "Minni" of the Bible (Jer. li. 27) is Armenia—or rather a part of that country, as Ararat is also mentioned (Isa. xxxvii. 38; II Kings xix. 37) as a part of Armenia."
  , but it can also relate to one of the regions of ancient Armenia, such as Manavasean (Minyas). Together with Ararat and Ashkenaz, this is probably the same Minnie from the Assyrian inscriptions, corresponding to Manna. Armenia is interpreted by some specialist scholars as ḪARMinni, that is, the “mountain region of Minnie.” 
   
  According to examinations of the place and personal names found in Assyrian and Urartian texts, the Mannaeans, or at least their rulers, spoke Hurrian, a non-Semitic and non-Indo-European language related to Urartian, with no modern language connections.
caption: region of the Ancient Armenia Minni(Minyas,Manavazean)
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