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unusual facts about Lake Van


Syriac Bible of Paris

The manuscript is assumed to have come from the Episcopal library of Siirt near Lake Van, where it may have been produced.


Arzashkun

This city is located variously by different scholars in the region of Lake Urmia, in that of Lake Van at Malazgirt or at Bostankaya between Malagirt and Patnos or lying west or north of Lake Van.

Catholicosate of Aghtamar

By the late 19th century, the Catholicosate of Aghtamar ruled over the southern shores of Lake Van: Shatakh, Khizan, etc.

Sassoon family

The family name of Sassoon, is also commonly shared by many Armenian and Kurdish families and tribes who all originate from the mountainous district of Sason (whence the family and tribal names), west of Lake Van, in upper Mesopotamia, in modern Turkey.


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Urartian language

The German scholar Friedrich Eduard Schulz, who discovered the Urartian inscriptions of the Lake Van region in 1826, made copies of several cuneiform inscriptions at Tushpa, but made no attempt at decipherment.