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	'''Nairi''' (]: Նայիրի in ] or Նաիրի in ]) was the ] name (KUR.KUR ''Na-i-ri'', ~~also~~ ''Na-'i-ru'') for a confederation of tribes in the ],<ref>{{cite book\|last=Redgate\|first=Anne Elizabeth\|title=The Armenians\|year=2000\|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell\|isbn=978-0631220374\|page=27\|authorlink=Elizabeth Redgate}}</ref> roughly corresponding to the modern ] and ] provinces of modern ]. The word is also used to describe the Armenian tribes who lived there.<ref>{{cite book\|last=Redgate\|first=Anne Elizabeth\|title=The Armenians\|year=2000\|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell\|isbn=978-0631220374\|page=27\|authorlink=Elizabeth Redgate}}</ref> Nairi has sometimes been equated with '''Nihriya''', known from Mesopotamian, Hittite, and Urartean sources.<ref>Trevor Bryce, ''The Kingdom of the Hittites'' 2005:316; Bryce locates Nairi north or northeast of modern ].</ref> However, its co-occurrence with Nihriya within a single text may argue against this.<ref>M. Salvini "Nairi, Na'iri" Reallexikon der Assyriologie 9. Edited by Erich Ebeling and Bruno Meissner. New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1998-2001. p. 87.</ref>		'''Nairi''' (]: Նայիրի in ] or Նաիրի in ]) was the ] name (KUR.KUR ''Na-i-ri'', ''Na-'i-ru'', "Nigiri", "Nigri") for a confederation of tribes in the ],<ref>{{cite book\|last=Redgate\|first=Anne Elizabeth\|title=The Armenians\|year=2000\|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell\|isbn=978-0631220374\|page=27\|authorlink=Elizabeth Redgate}}</ref> roughly corresponding to the modern ] and ] provinces of modern ]. The word is also used to describe the Armenian tribes who lived there.<ref>{{cite book\|last=Redgate\|first=Anne Elizabeth\|title=The Armenians\|year=2000\|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell\|isbn=978-0631220374\|page=27\|authorlink=Elizabeth Redgate}}</ref> Nairi has sometimes been equated with '''Nihriya''', known from Mesopotamian, Hittite, and Urartean sources.<ref>Trevor Bryce, ''The Kingdom of the Hittites'' 2005:316; Bryce locates Nairi north or northeast of modern ].</ref> However, its co-occurrence with Nihriya within a single text may argue against this.<ref>M. Salvini "Nairi, Na'iri" Reallexikon der Assyriologie 9. Edited by Erich Ebeling and Bruno Meissner. New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1998-2001. p. 87.</ref>

	During the ] (13th to 12th centuries BC), the Nairi tribes were considered a force strong enough to contend with both ] and ]. The ], the culminating point of the hostilities between ] and ] for control over the remnants of the former empire of ], took place there, c. 1230 BC.		During the ] (13th to 12th centuries BC), the Nairi tribes were considered a force strong enough to contend with both ] and ]. The ], the culminating point of the hostilities between ] and ] for control over the remnants of the former empire of ], took place there, c. 1230 BC.

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Nairi (Armenian: Նայիրի in TAO or Նաիրի in RAO) was the Assyrian name (KUR.KUR Na-i-ri, Na-'i-ru, "Nigiri", "Nigri") for a confederation of tribes in the Armenian Highlands, roughly corresponding to the modern Van and Hakkâri provinces of modern Turkey. The word is also used to describe the Armenian tribes who lived there. Nairi has sometimes been equated with Nihriya, known from Mesopotamian, Hittite, and Urartean sources. However, its co-occurrence with Nihriya within a single text may argue against this.

During the Bronze Age collapse (13th to 12th centuries BC), the Nairi tribes were considered a force strong enough to contend with both Assyria and Hatti. The Battle of Nihriya, the culminating point of the hostilities between Hittites and Assyrians for control over the remnants of the former empire of Mitanni, took place there, c. 1230 BC. Nairi was incorporated into Urartu during the 10th century BC.

Geography and history

According to Trevor Bryce the Nairi lands were inhabited by what he calls "fierce tribal groups" divided into a number of principalities, and are first mentioned by Tukulti-Ninurta I (1243–1207 BC) when he defeated and exacted tribute from forty Nairi kings. The names of twenty-three Nairi lands were recorded by Tiglath-Pileser I (1114–1076 BC). Their southernmost point was Tumme, known to have been south-west of Lake Urmia, and their northern one Daiaeni. These lands are known from the list of defeated kings: "the king of Tumme, the king of Tunube, the king of Tuali, the king of Kindari, the king of Uzula, the king of Unzamuni the king of Andiabe, the king of Pilakinni, the king of Aturgini, the king of Kulibarzini, the king of Shinibirni, the king of Himua, the king of Paiteri, the king of Uiram, the king of Shururia, the king of Albaia, the king of Ugina, the king of Nazabia, the king of Abarsiuni, and the king of Daiaeni." It is believed that Nairi extended from the Tur-Abdin mountains in the south to the mountainous area southwest of Lake Van in the north.

Shalmaneser III campaigned in the region, erecting a statue at the source of the Tigris. Bryce states that some of his "royal inscriptions indicate that the term now also denoted a specific region to the southwest of Lake Urmia, centred on the land of Hubushkia."(the exact location of Hubushkia is uncertain).

Populations

Albrecht Goetze suggested that what he refers to as the Hurriland dissolved into a number of small states that the Assyrians called Nairi. Others take this hypothesis skeptically; e.g., Benedict (Benedict 1960) points out that there is no evidence of the presence of Hurrites in the vicinity of Lake Van.

An early, documented reference to Nairi is a tablet dated to the time of Adad-nirari I (13th century BC), which mentions the purchase of 128 horses from the Nairi region.

The Nairi fought against the southern incursions of the Assyrians and would later unite into Urartu.

References

Redgate, Anne Elizabeth (2000). The Armenians. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 27. ISBN 978-0631220374.
Redgate, Anne Elizabeth (2000). The Armenians. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 27. ISBN 978-0631220374.
Trevor Bryce, The Kingdom of the Hittites 2005:316; Bryce locates Nairi north or northeast of modern Diyarbakir.
M. Salvini "Nairi, Na'iri" Reallexikon der Assyriologie 9. Edited by Erich Ebeling and Bruno Meissner. New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1998-2001. p. 87.
Bryce, Trevor (2012). The World of The Neo-Hittite Kingdoms: A Political and Military History. Oxford University Press. p. 199. ISBN 978-0199218721.
The Armenians — Page 27 by Elizabeth Redgate, A. E. (Anne Elizabeth) Redgate Grayson, IL, 1976 (pp. 12-13)
"Assyrian Catalogue of Anatolian lands and leaders".
The Origins of the Urartians in the Light of the Van/Karagündüz Excavations - Veli Sevin - Page 159 of 159-164
Bryce, Trevor (2009). The Routledge Handbook of the Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia: The Near East from the Early Bronze Age to the fall of the Persian Empire. Routledge. p. 495. ISBN 978-0415394857.
Götze, Albrecht (1974). Kulturgeschichte Kleinasiens. C H Beck. p. 190. ISBN 978-3-406-01351-5.
"Schriftfunde" (in German). "Inscribed objects" (English translation)

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