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| | Erebuni Erebuni 2780 commemorates the 2,780 anniversary of the founding ot Yerevan, Erebuni, artifacts, excavations, bronze age, iron age, Assyria, Medes, Cimmerians, Anatolia, Ancient History |
 | | As a part of the land and people interchangeably called "The Nairi", Urartians were recognized as early as 2000 BC on Assyrian cuneiform as coming from the "land between the rivers", a land known to hold about 60 tribes and 100 cities. |
| | Before Urartu were the Nairi, before the Nairi the Metsamor Kingdom, and before that untold numbers of now anonymous kingdoms and states that sprung from the Indo-European race born on the Armenian Plateau, spreading their language, ethnic identity and the secrets of bronze, iron and astronomy to both Asia and Europe. |
| | Until their rise, Urartians were subservient to a tribe also called the Nairi, which were in turn one tribe among many, but they held a predominant position during the 2nd millennium BC, and became the namesake for the entire region. |
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