'The Rock of Van', 1890. Van Fortress in Anatolia on Lake Van, built in the ancient kingdom of Urartu during 9th-7th centuries BC. In 1021 the last king of Vaspurakan, John-Senekerim Artsruni, ceded his entire kingdom to the Byzantine empire. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. III - The Middle Ages", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890. ]
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