Rusahinili

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Gabriel Mckee

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker

Last modified May 01, 2025 10:39 PM — History

Rusahinili (modern Toprakkale) was an ancient fortress of Urartu built by Rusa I.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/379202545

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
38.5205001, 43.4038002

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Toprakkale (900 BC - 600 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Toprakkale, Topra Kaleh (Toprakkale: Turkish, modern)

Rusahinili makes connections with:

Rusahinili located near Thospia/Bouana/‘Ospa’/Ṭušpa (900 BC - 600 BC)
Rusahinili part of (administrative) Urartu (900 BC - 600 BC)

Rusahinili receives connections from:

None

Place type:
fort, fort, tower (deprecated)

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Gabriel Mckee, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Rusahinili: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/379202545> [accessed: 18 June 2025]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/379202545 |title=Places: 379202545 (Rusahinili) |author=Mckee, G. |accessdate=June 18, 2025 5:42 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}