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    The Menua Canal, also known as the Semiramis Canal or as the Shamiram Canal, is a canal joined with a series of hydraulic works such as aqueducts constructed...
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    from c. 810 BC to approximately 786 BC. In Armenian, Menua is rendered as Menua. The name Menua may be connected etymologically to the Ancient Greek names...
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    Kingdom of Urartu undertook significant hydraulic works, such as the Menua canal. The earliest evidence of water wheels and watermills date back to the...
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    Sarmansuyu in later centuries, because of the Menua Canal, popularly known as the Shamiram or Shamran canal, that runs through the town. The form Edremit...
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  • 9th or 8th century BCE. She is associated with king Menua through inscriptions along the Menua Canal, where she owned land. However, it remains difficult...
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  • fortresses, developed a national canal and irrigation system. Inushpua 788–786 BC (?); co-ruled with his father, Menua. Possibly killed in battle. Argishti...
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    suffixes added through Suffixaufnahme: e.g. Argište-šə Menua-ḫi-ne-šə "Argišti (ergative), son of Menua (ergative)". The plural form can also serve as a general...
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  • ISSN 2048-0849. JSTOR 3642562. S2CID 131657710. The construction of the Menua canal would have made a population of fifty thousand in Van itself, the city...
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    Armenia. Hoşap Castle Çavuştepe, Urartian castle Surp Marinos Monastery Menua Canal There are 79 neighbourhoods in Gürpınar District: Akbulut Akdoğu Akpınar...
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  • important irrigation canal was Menua or Shamiram Canal, which supplied fresh water to the capital of Urartu, the city of Tushpa. The canal crossed the Hoşap...
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    History. p. 74. ISBN 9780700714520. By the will of Khaldi, Menua, son of Ishpuini, has built this canal. "Eski Çağ'da Muş" (in Turkish). Iğdır University Sos...
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    of irrigation canals, constructed between the Aras and its tributary the Kasakh, is contemporaneous with the town itself. Several canals visible to this...
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    Armenian highlands. These eruptions occurred c. 787 BC (period of King Menua) and c. 657 BC (period of King Rusa II), and the latter eruption might have...
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    Argishti, son of Menua, is a mighty king, king of Biainili, and ruler of Tushpa."[Van]. During the height of the Urartian power, irrigation canals and artificial...
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    several regions remain ancient irrigation canals, constructed by Urartu, mainly during the Argishti I and Menua period, some of which are still used for...
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    the Urartian king Argishti I, whose father Menua, a contemporary of Shammuramat, constructed a great canal which later on curiously at some point was...
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