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  • Tushpa

  • Tushpa

    Tushpa is an ancient settlement and the capital of Urartu in the 9th century BC. The ancient ruins are located just west of Van and east of Lake Van in the Van Province of Turkey.
    The site is one of the elements included in the UNESCO Tentative List for World Heritage designation, Tushpa/Van Fortress, the Mound and the Old City of Van.
    UNESCO Tentative List
    Tushpa
    by Ziegler175, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    Tushpa
    by Proudbolsahye, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    Tushpa
    by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL, via Wikimedia Commons
    Elevation: 1660 m

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    Tushpa

    UNESCO Tentative List

    Date of Submission

    2016

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    Historic Cities and Regions

    Location

    Turkey

    Van

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    Second Millennium BC

    Bronze Age

    Urartian Kingdom + Persian + Armenian + Hellenistic + Roman

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    Mixed Monuments

     

     

     

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