Ayanıs
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Ayanis () is an Urartian archaeological site close to lake Van, Turkey. It was originally built as a fortress by Urartian king Rusa II and named after him Rusahinili Eidurukai ("The City of Rusa in front of Mount Eiduru"). The site was occupied during the Iron Age II period and then again in the Middle Ages between the tenth and eleventh century.
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- archaeological site
- Country
- Turkey
- Located in
- Tuşba district
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- located in/on physical feature
- Eastern Anatolia Region
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Ayanis () is an Urartian archaeological site close to lake Van, Turkey. It was originally built as a fortress by Urartian king Rusa II and named after him Rusahinili Eidurukai ("The City of Rusa in front of Mount Eiduru"). The site was occupied during the Iron Age II period and then again in the Middle Ages between the tenth and eleventh century.
==History== Ayanis was the last fortress built by Urartian king Rusa II around 673/72 BC. It was then known under the name Rusahinili Eidurukai ("The City of Rusa in front of Mount Eiduru") according to an inscription found in front of the monumental gate (Mount Eiduru can be identified with the nearby Mount Süphan).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ayanıs” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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