- Tushpa
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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.by Ziegler175, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commonsby Proudbolsahye, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commonsby Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL, via Wikimedia CommonsElevation: 1660 m
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UNESCO Tentative List
Date of Submission
2016
Second Millennium BC
Bronze Age
Urartian Kingdom + Persian + Armenian + Hellenistic + Roman
Mixed Monuments
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