Niḫirija

Niḫirija also Niḫrija ( Urartian ^URU Ni-ḫi-ri-a) was a city and country of the same name in southeastern Anatolia, which is documented by Hittite , Assyrian and Urartean sources. On the stele of Surb Pogos in Van, the Urartian king Sarduri II reports that he subdued Niḫirija. At that time it was the royal city of Arme .

Niḫirija is usually equated with Martyropolis (Neferkert / Nepčerkert / Mîyafariqîn, today Silvan east of Diyarbakır ). However, it was also proposed to Eğil on the Upper Tigris .

literature

Nikolaj V. Arutjunjan: Toponimika Urartu . Akademia Nauk Armenian SSR, Erevan 1985, p. 155.
Igor Mikhaĭlovich Diakonov, SM Kashkai: Geographical names according to Urartian texts . Reichert, Wiesbaden 1981 ( Répertoire géographique des textes cunéiformes . Vol. 9), p. 60.
Mirjo Salvini: The historical Geography of the Sevan Region in the Urartian period . In: Raffaele Biscione, Simon Hmayakyan Neda Parmegiani (Ed.): The North-Eastern frontier Urartians and non-Urartians in the Sevan Lake basin . CNR Istituto di studi sulle civiltà dell'Egeo e del Vicino Oriente, Rome 2002.
Mirjo Salvini: Una lettera di Hattušili I relativa alla spedizione contro Ḫaḫḫu . In: Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici . Vol. 34, 1994, pp. 61-80.

Individual evidence

^ M. Salvini: The historical Geography of the Sevan Region in the Urartian period . In: Raffaele Biscione, Simon Hmayakyan Neda Parmegiani (Ed.): The North-Eastern frontier Urartians and non-Urartians in the Sevan Lake basin . CNR Istituto di studi sulle civiltà dell'Egeo e del Vicino Oriente, Rome 2002, p. 47.

[1] M. Salvini: The historical Geography of the Sevan Region in the Urartian period . In: Raffaele Biscione, Simon Hmayakyan Neda Parmegiani (Ed.): The North-Eastern frontier Urartians and non-Urartians in the Sevan Lake basin . CNR Istituto di studi sulle civiltà dell'Egeo e del Vicino Oriente, Rome 2002, p. 47.