History of the Rock of Van: according to the stone and the Armenian source
PART A. TESTIMONY OF THE ARMENIAN SOURCE 1. The name that lived for 1,400 years This is the strongest Armenian fact in this entire story, and it is almost never mentioned. In Urartian cuneiform inscriptions, the capital is called Tushpa (Ṭušpa). In Assyrian annals — Turushpa. The city was destroyed in 6... BC.