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[[Image:Arzashburning.PNG|right|thumb|300px|The burning of Arzashkun as depicted on the bronze door coverings of Shalmaneser III from Balawat.]]

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'''Arzashkun''' ([[Armenian language|Armenian]]: Արզաշկուն) was located north of [[Lake Van]], double walled and with towers <ref>Journal of the American Oriental Society - Page 360</ref> <ref>Shalmaneser III and the Establishment of the Assyrian Power, by A. T. Olmstead p.360</ref>. The capital of the early [[kingdom of Urartu]] in the [[9th century BC]], before [[Sarduri I]]'s move of the capital to [[Tushpa]] ([[Van, Turkey|Van]]) in [[832 BC]], some 150 km to the south-east.

In a [[Ghazal]], second line of all the [[Sher]]s *MUST* end with the *SAME* word/s. This repeating common words is the 'Radif' of the Ghazal. For example, in the following Ghazal by Daag Dehelvi the Radif is ''mein''.

Arzashkun was captured by [[Shalmaneser III]] in the 840s BC.

== Name ==

Arzashkun seems to be the [[Assyrian]] form of an [[Urartian language|Urartian]] name ending in -ka formed from a proper name Arzash, which recalls the name Arsene, Arsissa, applied by the ancients to part of [[Lake Van]]. Arzashkun might represent the Ardzik of the [[Armenians|Armenian]] historians, west of [[Malazgirt|Malasgert]]. <ref>History of Egypt - Page 91 by G. Maspero</ref>

== Background ==

aafat kii shoKhiyaa.N hai.n tumhaarii nigaah mein

Arzashkun was hidden, and protected against attack, by an extent of dense forest almost impassable to a regular army. <ref>Passing of the Empires 850 BC to 330 BC</ref>

== Location ==

mehashar ke fitane khelate hai.n jalwa-gaah ''mein''

There is no agreement as to the precise ___location of Arzashkun. It may correspond to the ''Ardzik'' of the Armenian historians, situated west of [[Malasgert]], at the [[Arzanias]] river, roughly {{coor dm|39|10|N|42|10|E|}}, in what is now the Turkish [[Muş Province]].

This city is located variously by different scholars in the region of [[Lake Urmia]], in that of Lake Van at Malazgirt or at Bostankaya between Malagirt and Patnos or lying west or north of [[Lake Van]]. <ref>The Cambridge Ancient History - Page 335 by John Boardman</ref>

== Fall of Arzashkun ==

wo dushmanii se dekhate hai.n dekhate to hain

At the headwaters of the river [[Tigris]], there appears in the ninth century, B.C., an organized state of [[Urartu]]. Shalmaneser regarded it as so menacing to [[Assyria]]'s interest that he undertook an expedition in 857, claimed to destroyed the capital Arzashkun <ref>The Ancient Assyrians - Page 12

by Mark Healy</ref>, penetrated as far as [[Lake Van]], and left his inscription on [[Mount Irritia]]. <ref>Aram and Israel - Page 105 by Emil Gottlieb Heinrich Kraeling</ref>

Shalmaneser on his ''Black Obelisk'' records this campaign:

mai.n shaad huu.N ke huu.N to kisii kii nigaah ''mein''

:(35-44) In the third year of my reign, Ahuni, son of Adini, was frightened before my mighty weapons and retreated from Til-barzip, his royal city. I crossed the Euphrates. I seized for myself the city of Ana-Assur-utir-asbat, which lies on the other side of the Euphrates, on the Sagur river, which the Hittite people called Pitru. When I returned, I entered the passes of the land of Alzi; the lands of Alzi, Suhni, Daiaeni, Tumme, Arzashkunu, the royal city of [[Aramu|Arame]], the Armenian (king), Gilzânu, and Hubushkia (I conquered).[http://www.kchanson.com/ANCDOCS/meso/obelisk.html]

== References ==

aatii baat baat mujhe yaad baar baar

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== See also ==

*[[Urartu]]

*[[Sugunia]]

[[Category:Urartu]]

kahataa huu.N dau.D dau.D ke qaasid se raah ''mein''

[[Category:History of Anatolia]]

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[[hy:Արզաշկուն]]

is taubaah par hai naaz mujhe zaahid is qadar

jo TuuT kar shariik huu.N haal-e-tabaah ''mein''

mushtaaq is adaa ke bahot dard-ma.nd the

ae DaaG tum to baiTh gaye ek aah ''mein''