Arzashkun
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Arzashkun (Armenian: Արզաշկուն) was located north of Lake Van, double walled and with towers. It was the capital of the early kingdom of Urartu in the 9th century BC.
At the headwaters of the river Tigris, in the ninth century, B.C., an state of Urartu. Shalmaneser regarded it as so important to Assyria's interest that he started an mission in 857, and said that he destroyed the capital Arzashkun, located as far as Lake Van, and left his inscription on Mount Irritia.
Arzashkun seems to be the Assyrian form of an Urartian name ending in -ka formed from a proper name Arzash, which the name Arsene, Arsissa, known by the ancients to part of Lake Van. Arzashkun might show the Ardzik of the Armenian historians, west of Malasgert.
