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Underwater Fortress Discovered Under Turkish Lake | National Geographic ctm magazine
Deep within Turkey’s biggest lake, archaeologists made a fascinating discovery. A 3,000-year-old fortress was found during an underwater excavation of Lake Van.
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The fortress likely comes from the Urartu civilization. The water level of Lake Van was hundreds of meters lower during the Urartian occupation of the lake. As the water level of the lake rose, the fortress was all but forgotten…until now!
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https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/11/underwater-fortress-urartu-lake-van-turkey-archaeology-video-spd/
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Everyone, please watch my little nature videos. There is no talking in them. Shhh!
I like how after 2,000 years one guy had the idea of " hey we should see what's in the lake" . It's 2017 and finding these ruins until now makes me feel stupider than before as a species.
Turkey is such an interesting place historically. The buildings and the lost cities and such. So much of it is truly unique.
If the country becomes more stable, it would be neat to visit there.
what about dwarka underwater city make video on that too
Its truly amazing at how little we know what's under all the water in the world.
This is the kind of content I like to see Nat Geo.
Here befor it’s Goes virial
Please change your ending music theme is so annoying and makes my ears bleed
Wild! Let's hear more about it!
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GOD BLESS TURKIYE C*
Some details would be nice, NG. It's cool to know it exists but knowing some history on it would be even more nice.
tldw: bricks underwater
Van Gölü Van Sea
Where is the fortress though?
Where is the underwater turkey? Attack of the mutated Aquaturkey
Hişşt. It's just a video, not a place for discussion. PLEASE !!
Wow amazing discovery!
Does anyone know the reality of how/why the lake levels rose?
Are you guys calling it a fortress just because its made of stone?
Armenian fortress stolen during the Armenian genocide, Urartians were proto-Armenians
3,000 years! And yet superior to anything that the Turks have created.
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That means that every generation we are going to be more under water
Van was established in first half of IX century B.C. In ancient period it was known as "Tushpa". Armenians called that city "Van". It came from the word Biayna (which was the central region of Urartian kingdom). In Armenian the meaning of Van is "a place of living", "settlement". Therefore other Armenian cities which were established later had in the end of their names the word "Van" (Ervand-a-van, Arshak-a-van, Zareh-a-van, Nakhch-a-van, Vane-van, etc).
Van also was known as Shamiramakert (kert in Armenian – build) or Shamiramashen (shen in Armenian also – build). It was the name of Assyrian Queen Shamiram. There is an epic legend about Armenian king (epic hero) Ara the Handsome and Shamiram.
Van's location on the mapTushpa-Van was located on the left side of Lake Van, several kilometers far from the lake's shore. The territory of the city had been inhabited from the ancient times.
Van was the capital of the Urartian kingdom (during 9th-7th centuries B.C.). It was located nearly in the middle of the Urartian kingdom.Urartu Kingdom map Tushpa-Van
Van's castle (fortress, citadel) was built on the hilltop which was located in the center of the ancient city.
As there wasn't enough water for drink and farming near the Van Urartian king Menua built a canal (80km long). Canal also known as Shamiram's canal.
Van lost its importance after fall of the Urartian Kingdom (585 B.C.) when Median army captured the city.
New rising of the city began during the period of existence of Artashesyan (Araxiad) Kingdom.
During I-VII A.D Van didn't lost its importance. But after Arabian invasion Van became a little feudal city.
Van started to raise during IX-XIII. Van especially bloomed when it became the capital of Vaspurakan (Armenian) Kingdom (during X-XI). But after XIII century Van's growth stopped. During several ages Van several times was captured Ruins of Armenian Church in Vanby invaders and at least became under the control of Ottoman Empire.
In 1805-1806 Van's population was over 15.000-20.000. Overwhelming majority were Armenians. By the end of 19th century from 40.000 Van's population Armenians were over 25.000. Almost the same number of population Van had at the beginning of Armenian Genocide. Van had 12 Armenian churches.
Van is one of the most ancient cities, which exists till our days. But after 1915-1918 (Armenian GENOCIDE and I World War), native population of the city, Armenians, were massacred (by young Turks) or emigrated to Eastern Armenia and Persia to save their lives.
Archaeologists say Armenia is the only modern nation that exists from the map of Babylonia, and Armenia was written "Urartu", the Bible and Ancient Persians mentioned passing the land of Armenia. Isaiah 37:38 "And it Came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, … they escaped to the land of Armenia…" In 522 BC Babylon described us Armenians rebelling and Nobidus a Armenian Claiming to be the son of the king of Babylon. Another little info is that we still use the same names back before 2492 BC like Hayk, Aram, Armen, Ara, Ashot, etc. So the Urartu Kingdom is proudly Armenia to us Armenians. Especially since Urartu began 860 BC and Armenia was already there in 2492 BC so it would makes no sense to not call them ancient Armenians.
Cual es el nombre de la canción de fondo del vídeo? Es raro que no lo hayan mencionado
The Shalmaneser text uses the name Urartu to refer to a geographical region, not a kingdom, and names eight “lands” contained within Urartu ( which at the time of the campaign were still disunited ) . “Urartu” is cognate with the Biblical “Ararat,” Akkadian “Urashtu,” and Armenian “Ararat.” The kingdom rose to power in the mid-9th century BC, but was conquered by Media in the early 6th century BC. The heirs of Urartu are the Armenians and their successive kingdoms. Though there is no written evidence of any other language being spoken in this kingdom, it is argued on linguistic evidence that Proto-Armenian came in contact with Urartian at an early date. In the early 6th century BC, the Urartian Kingdom was replaced by the Armenian Orontid dynasty. In the trilingual Behistun inscription, carved in 521 or 520 BC by the order of Darius the Great of Persia, the country referred to as Urartu in Assyrian is called Arminiya in Old Persian and Harminuia in Elamite.
a fascinating example of how amature and immature NG research is; the remains are dated ti the mid. ages and are documented since about a century now. Funny. Also there wasn't an archeologist with the discocery team.
Thats not a lake people its deeper then that don't u Think I mean sense it has a hole church under it I wouldn't call it a lake anymore There's a hole another world under or feet we just have to discover it is all
It was not archaeologists that found this castle. It was monster Hunter’s. They had been searching for a monster that has said to have been hunting the lake for years.
What? I was reading a story about the castle found in the lake. Saw NG did a video about it cool. 1 min and 18 seconds. Really??
VAN was Armenien land
thats Armenian fortress
Armenia; Noah's city.
Am sure Armenian built in the Urartu era! Another Armenian treasure lost!
Van is Armenian not Turkish. The fortress is from Armenian Kingdom of Urartu.
Watch out Lake Van Monster!
This isn’t Turkish this is my people artifact
Seems to me a world wide flood took place at one time!
armenian lake
Urartu Armenian kingdom Hayassa proof that Van is Armenia 🇦🇲
Armenian treasure Lake Van 🇦🇲
Kingdom of Van Armenia "URARTU"/ "ARARAT" kingdom rose into power 9th century BC, Turkey stoped the Filming and further exploration of Van very well knowing that it is Armenian Kingdom URARTU, as they have stoped exploration of Mount.ARARAT. Turkeys Government tries very hard to rewrite History but unfortunately you can not hide evidence. The first map of the world has Armenia on there, Armenians have been one of the oldest civilization on earth. Turkey kills, and steals,Greek, Assyrian, and Armenian history and culture as its own.
Van belonged to Christian Assyrians and Armenians since they have lived there more than 4000 years ago. It was a part of the Assyrian empire (Mesopotamia) but the Ottomans Holocaust and massacre of the Christian assyrians and Armenians in 1915 killed hundreds of thousands and many was forced to flee their land/ immigrate or die.
My Assyrian great grandparents was lucky to flee to Mosul with their families. Still to the day today I identify as my tribe to be from the area of Van in modern day turkey. That area would have been full of Assyrians and Armenians today if they were not killed and forced to flee, because it is their land.
So to say that the land belongs to Muslims turkey is wrong in many ways because historically Christian Assyrians and Armenian have lived there for thousands of years.
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My beatifull Kurdistan. One of nicest cities of Kurdistan ❤️
It has been suggested that this is the Bronze Age city of Hanzat (In the Iron Age Enzite to the Assyrians). These remains may well be from much later periods though.