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🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city

Van Fortress and Tushpa — Capital of Urartu

Urartian Kingdom (9th–6th century BCE; later Urartian–Median–Achaemenid–Ottoman) · Urartian (Biainili) → Median → Achaemenid → Ottoman

Urartu's 100 m limestone citadel over Lake Van with royal rock-tombs and Xerxes trilingual.