Menua
Menua | |
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King of Urartu | |
Reign | c. 810–c. 786 BC |
Predecessor | Ishpuini |
Successor | Argishti I |
Born | ca. 850 BC |
Died | ca. 786 BC |
Issue | Inushpua, Tariria, Argishti I |
Father | Ishpuini |
Menua (
A younger son of the preceding Urartian King,
Menua Canal after the king.[6] It flowed at a rate of 1500 to 3000 litres of water per second, depending on the time of the year.[7]
Several of these canals are still in use today.
He briefly co-ruled with his son, Inushpua, but was succeeded by another son, Argishti I.[8] Menua also had a daughter named Tariria, after whom a certain vineyard was named Taririakhinli.[9]
It is believed that Menua founded the city of Manazkert (Malazgirt).[10]
See also
References
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- ^ Petrosyan, Armen (2002). The Indo-European and Ancient Near Eastern Sources of the Armenian Epic. Washington D.C. 2002. Washington, D.C.: Institute for the Study of Man. p. 182.
- ^ Petrosyan, Armen (April 2019), "On the Ethnic Origin of the Ruling Elite of Urartu", Over the Mountains and Far Away: Studies in Near Eastern History and Archaeology presented to Mirjo Salvini on the occasion of his 80th birthday, Archaeopress, p. 405.
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- ^ Neusner, J. (1966). A History of the Jews in Babylon, Volume 1. p. 77.