Tosp ( Տոսպ in Armenian ) is a district of Vaspurakan province of Historical Armenia . The name came from the name Tushpa known as the capital of Araratian Kingdom aka Urartu . Tushpa was a name of Van city , and district called as Biaina or Biainili in the Urartu period , but after the Urartu gave the way to the Armenian Yervanduni Kingdom the district 's name and the name of the city changed over . Biayna transformed to Van ( city ) and Tushpa to Tosp ( district ) . Tosp 's lands were an indivisible part of Armenian culture and Armenian ethnicity since the Urartu era to the 1915-1923 Armenian Genocide
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