Get to know Urartu better with 8 real example sentences, the meaning.
Urartu in a sentence
Urartu meaning
An Iron Age kingdom flourishing 9th-6th century BC, located in the Armenian Highland and centred in the mountainous region around Lake Van.
Using Urartu
- The main meaning on this page is: An Iron Age kingdom flourishing 9th-6th century BC, located in the Armenian Highland and centred in the mountainous region around Lake Van.
Context around Urartu
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 1 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Urartu
- In this selection, "urartu" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, phrygia, neighbouring, actively, persia and successfully stand out and add context to how "urartu" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include bce and urartu and assyria and elam phrygia urartu persia and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "urartu" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aaba and aafc, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with urartu
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Assyria began to once more expand from circa. 935 BCE, and Urartu and Assyria became fierce rivals. (17 words)
Urartu actively tried to conquest other regions but collapsed in the 6th century due to an allied strike. (18 words)
Urartu successfully repelled Assyrian expansionism for a time, however from the 9th to 7th century BCE it progressively lost territory to Assyria. (22 words)
Urartu was ravaged by marauding Indo-European speaking Scythian and Cimmerian raiders during this time, with its vassal king (together with the king of neighbouring Lydia ) vainly pleading with the beleaguered Assyrian king for help. (35 words)
Assyria, with its stable monarchy, powerful army and secure borders was in a stronger position during this time than potential rivals such as Egypt, Babylonia, Elam, Phrygia, Urartu, Persia and Media. (31 words)
Gold was in short supply, and the Amarna letters inform us that it was acquired from Egypt. Not many examples of Hurrian metal work have survived, except from the later Urartu. (31 words)
Example sentences (8)
Urartu actively tried to conquest other regions but collapsed in the 6th century due to an allied strike.
Assyria began to once more expand from circa. 935 BCE, and Urartu and Assyria became fierce rivals.
Assyria, with its stable monarchy, powerful army and secure borders was in a stronger position during this time than potential rivals such as Egypt, Babylonia, Elam, Phrygia, Urartu, Persia and Media.
From there they pushed further North in the district of Eysala for the purpose of being hidden from the eyes from neighbouring Urartu.
Gold was in short supply, and the Amarna letters inform us that it was acquired from Egypt. Not many examples of Hurrian metal work have survived, except from the later Urartu.
Urartu However, a power vacuum was to allow a new and powerful Hurrian state whose rulers spoke Urartian, similar to old Hurrian, to arise.
Urartu successfully repelled Assyrian expansionism for a time, however from the 9th to 7th century BCE it progressively lost territory to Assyria.
Urartu was ravaged by marauding Indo-European speaking Scythian and Cimmerian raiders during this time, with its vassal king (together with the king of neighbouring Lydia ) vainly pleading with the beleaguered Assyrian king for help.