query: country_of_citizenship ishpuini of urartu
supports: Tushpa ("Tosp", Assyrian: "Turuspa") was the 9th-century BC capital of Urartu, later becoming known as Van which is derived from "Biaina" the native name of Urartu. The ancient ruins are located just west of Van and east of Lake Van in the Van Province of Turkey. Van Province is a province in eastern Turkey, between Lake Van and the Iranian border. It is 19,069 km in area and had a population of 1,035,418 at the end of 2010. Its adjacent provinces are Bitlis to the west, Siirt to the southwest, rnak and Hakkâri to the south, and Ar to the north. The capital is the city of Van. The majority of the province's population is Kurdish. Babylon (or ; Aramaic: , "Babel", , "Bavel", , "Bbil") was a major city of ancient Mesopotamia in the fertile plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The city was built upon the Euphrates and divided in equal parts along its left and right banks, with steep embankments to contain the river's seasonal floods. Babylon was originally a small Semitic Akkadian city dating from the period of the Akkadian Empire c. 2300 BC. Assyria was a major Mesopotamian East Semitic-speaking kingdom and empire of the ancient Near East. It existed as an independent state from perhaps as early as the 25th century BC in the form of the Assur city-state, until its lapse between 612 BC and 599 BC, spanning the Early to Middle Bronze Age through to the late Iron Age. Ishpuini ( also Ishpuinis ) ( ruled 828 - 810 BC ) was king of Urartu . He succeeded his father , Sarduri I , who moved the capital to Tushpa ( Van ) . Ishpuini conquered the Mannaean city of Musasir , which was then made the religious center of the empire . The main temple for the war god Haldi was in Musasir . Ishpuinis and his nation were then attacked by the forces Assyrian King Shamshi - Adad V. Ishpuinis fought and defeated Shamshi - Adad . Ishpuini was so confident in his power that he began using names meaning everlasting glory , including , `` King of the land of Nairi '' , `` Glorious King '' , and `` King of the Universe '' . Ishpuini was succeeded by his son , Menua . Lake Van is the largest lake in Turkey, located in the far east of the country in the provinces of Van and Bitlis. It is a saline soda lake, receiving water from numerous small streams that descend from the surrounding mountains. Lake Van is one of the world's largest endorheic lakes (having no outlet). The original outlet from the basin was blocked by an ancient volcanic eruption. Although Lake Van is situated at an altitude of in a region with harsh winters, its high salinity prevents most of it from freezing, and even the shallow northern section is only occasionally an exception. Urartu, also known as Kingdom of Van (Urartian: ' Assyrian: '; Babylonian: "Urashtu"), was an Iron Age kingdom centred on Lake Van in the Armenian Highlands. It corresponds to the biblical "Kingdom of Ararat". Shamshi-Adad V was the King of Assyria from 824 to 811 BC. He was named after the god Adad, who is also known as Hadad. Armenia ( tr. "Hayastan"), officially the Republic of Armenia (tr. "Hayastani Hanrapetutyun"), is a sovereign state in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located in Western Asia on the "Armenian Highlands", it is bordered by Turkey to the west, Russia and Georgia to the north and Azerbaijan to the east, and Iran and Azerbaijan's exclave of Nakhchivan to the south. The Armenian Highlands (also known as the Armenian Upland, Armenian plateau, Armenian tableland, or simply Armenia) is the central-most and highest of three land-locked plateaus. To its west is the Anatolian plateau which rises slowly from the lowland coast of the Aegean Sea and converges with the Armenian Highlands to the east of Cappadocia. To its southeast is the Iranian plateau, where the elevation drops rapidly by about to above sea level. The Caucasus extends to the northeast of the Armenian Highlands. To the southwest of the Armenian Highlands is Upper Mesopotamia.
candidates: akkadian empire armenia assyria georgia russia turkey
answer: armenia