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Podcast | Finding Manuland - Road to Tushpa / Van

Episode XLV

Menua, son of the founder of the Urartian Empire, once lived on the lakeside at Tushpa, whose modern name is Van (Türkiye).

Tushpa / Van is the meeting place of many great empires Kura-Araxes, Hittite (Indo-European), Mitanni (Indo-Europeanish), Babylon/Mesopotamian/Assyrian, Urartu, Armenian (Indo-European), Achmænaid (Indo-European) and now, I guess, mainly Kurd (Indo-European) and Turkish! Today, I’m driving to Van to, well, Find Manuland.

Tushpa, a strategic point in Lake Van basin, was situated in the centre of the historic route from every direction to Van Plain.

The capital, which included the first known written monument of the Kings of Urartu; was one of the most crowded and important Urartian centres with its splendid royal tombs, palaces, governmental storages, sacred sites, vineyards and orchards situated in fertile plains irrigated with dams and channels.


Previous Episode:

How we can know M-N- sound’s ubiquity inside Turkic languages and culture is a function of Indo-European and Turkic languages’ early contacts.

How we can know M-N- sound’s ubiquity inside Turkic languages and culture is a function of Indo-European and Turkic languages’ early contacts.

M-N- sound appears to have many of the same meanings in Turkic as well as in Indo-European languages (Manas is the mythological founder of Turkic Kirghiz culture, Zaman signifies time in Turkish, for example).

First Episode:

Finding Manuland I

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February 1, 2024
Finding Manuland I

In October 2021 I was returning from my final vacation before my forced retirement from my beloved diplomatic posting to Ukraine.

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