Guriana

Guriana was an Iron Age kingdom in northern Anatolia or in Transcaucasia. According to ABL 146 Guriana was between Urartu and Gamir and Urartu was subject to tribute. From the annals of Sarduri II a country Quriani is known, which was not far from Igane in the vicinity of the Çıldır lake . It could be the same as Guriana. Diakonov wants to derive the name of the Kura River from Quirane. Some scholars identify Guriana or Quriani with the Georgian region of Guria, which has been documented since the 8th century AD and still exists today .

Individual evidence

^ Paul Zimansky, review of "Who were the Cimmerians, and where did they come from? Sargon II, the Cimmerians, and Rusa I. By Anne Katrine Gade Kristensen. Translated by Jorgen Laessoe. The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Historisk -filosofiske Meddelelsler 57. Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1988. " P. 52
^ IM Diakonoff , S., M. Kashkai: Répertoire Géographique des textes cuneiformes. 9. Geographical names according to Urartian texts (Wiesbaden 1981), 71
↑ К. Ган, "Извѣстiя древнихъ греческихъ и римскихъ писателей о Кавказѣ". Часть II, Тифлис, 1890, p. 56

[1] Paul Zimansky, review of "Who were the Cimmerians, and where did they come from? Sargon II, the Cimmerians, and Rusa I. By Anne Katrine Gade Kristensen. Translated by Jorgen Laessoe. The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Historisk -filosofiske Meddelelsler 57. Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1988. " P. 52

[2] IM Diakonoff , S., M. Kashkai: Répertoire Géographique des textes cuneiformes. 9. Geographical names according to Urartian texts (Wiesbaden 1981), 71

[3] К. Ган, "Извѣстiя древнихъ греческихъ и римскихъ писателей о Кавказѣ". Часть II, Тифлис, 1890, p. 56