Vannic

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• Urartian language — Infobox Language name=Urartian region=Urartu, Armenian Highland extinct=c. 6th century BCE familycolor=Isolate fam1=Hurro Urartian iso2=mis iso3=xurUrartian (also called Vannic, in older literature also Chaldean ) is the conventional name for the …   Wikipedia

• Lutipri — was a 9th century BC king of Urartu. Little is known about him except that the Vannic inscriptions claim that he was Sarduri s father.He appears to have ruled between 844 and 834 BC, in a period of obscurity after the destruction of the former… …   Wikipedia

• Friedrich Edward Schulz — was a German professor. Schulz had himself been recording inscriptions and other antiquities for the French government in the Lake Van area, until he was murdered by Kurds in 1829. [Empires of the Plain: Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of… …   Wikipedia

• Sarduri II — (ruled 764 735 BCE) was the King of Urartu (modern day Armenia). The Urartian Kingdom was at its peak during his reign. He succeeded his father Argishti I to the throne. Sardur II was so confident in his power that he erected a massive wall at… …   Wikipedia

• Urartian language — also called  Chaldean  or  Vannic        ancient language spoken in northeastern Anatolia and used as the official language of Urartu in the 9th–6th centuries BCE. Urartu centred on the district of Lake Van (Van, Lake) but also extended over the… …   Universalium

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