Hayots Dzor
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Birgit Christiansen
Creators: Birgit Christiansen
Contributors:
Thomas Seidler, Jeffrey Becker
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Last modified
Dec 13, 2024 12:59 PM
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History
Hayots Dzor ("valley of the Armenians") is a valley in the Gürpınar District in the Van Province in the southeast of modern Turkey. Here a stone block with an inscription of the Urartian king Minua, son of Išpuini (9th / 8th century BCE) has been found (CTU A 5-15E) which reports the building of the "Canal of Minua" which is still in use today. The building of the canal is also reported in several other inscriptions which were set up elsewhere at the shore of the canal. In Armenian mythology, Hayots Dzor is the valley where the Armenian progenitor Hayk defeated the army of the invading Assyrian king Bēl and constructed a fortress (Haykaberd) nearby.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/452982119
38.1423501631, 43.6219804933
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Gürpınar (region) (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Hayots Dzor part of (administrative) Urartu (900 BC - 600 BC)
- Guganis located near Hayots Dzor (unspecified date range)
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Birgit Christiansen , Thomas Seidler, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Hayots Dzor: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/452982119> [accessed: 18 December 2024]
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