'''Urartu''' ({{Bản mẫu:Lang-hy|Ուրարտու}} - ''Urartu'', Assyrian: ''{{Bản mẫu:Lang|akk|māt Urarṭu}}'';<ref>Eberhard Schrader, ''The Cuneiform inscriptions and the Old Testament'' (1885), p. 65.</ref> [[Tiếng Akkad|Babylonian]]: ''Urashtu''), theo cuốn '''Kingdom of Ararat''' ({{Bản mẫu:Lang-hy|Արարատյան Թագավորություն}}) or '''Kingdom of Van''' ({{Bản mẫu:Lang-hy|Վանի Թագավորություն}}, Urartian: ''{{Bản mẫu:Lang|xur|Biai, Biainili}}''<ref name="Hewsen-2000"><cite class="citation" id="CITEREFHewsen2000">Hewsen, Robert H. (2000), "'Van in This World; Paradise in the Next': The Historical Geography of Van/Vaspurakan", in Hovannisian, Richard G., '' Armenian Van/Vaspurakan '', Historic Armenian Cities and Provinces , Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers , p. p. 13, [[Online Computer Library Center|OCLC]] [//www.worldcat.org/oclc/44774992 44774992]</cite><cite class="citation" id="CITEREFHewsen2000"></cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AUrartu&rft.atitle=%27Van+in+This+World%3B+Paradise+in+the+Next%27%3A+The+Historical+Geography+of+Van%2FVaspurakan&rft.aufirst=Robert+H.&rft.aulast=Hewsen&rft.btitle=+Armenian+Van%2FVaspurakan+&rft.date=2000&rft.genre=bookitem&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F44774992&rft.pages=p.+13&rft.place=Costa+Mesa%2C+California&rft.pub=Mazda+Publishers+&rft.series=Historic+Armenian+Cities+and+Provinces+&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook"> </span> CS1 maint: Extra text ([[:Thể loại:Bảo trì CS1: Văn bản dư|link]])<span> </span></ref>) là một vương quốc [[thời đại đồ sắt]] tập trung quanh [[hồ Van]] ở [[sơn nguyên Armenia]].
* [http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=17&sub_subj_id=410&id=941 Capital and Periphery in the Kingdom of Urartu], Yehuda Dagan, Israel Antiquities Authority