Arzashkun

Arzashkun or Arṣashkun was the capital of the early kingdom of Urartu in the 9th century BC, before Sarduri I moved it to Tushpa in 832 BC. Arzashkun had double walls and towers,[1][2] but was captured by Shalmaneser III in the 850s BC.

  1. ^ Journal of the American Oriental Society - Page 360
  2. ^ Shalmaneser III and the Establishment of the Assyrian Power, by A. T. Olmstead p.360

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