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Nairi was the Assyrian name (KUR.KUR Na-i-ri, also Na-'i-ru) for a region of eastern Anatolia, roughly corresponding to the modern Van and Hakkâri provinces of Turkey.
During the Bronze Age collapse (13th to 12th centuries BC), tribes settling in this region were considered a force strong enough to contend with both Assyria Hatticitation needed Nairi was incorporated into Urartu during the 10th century BC.
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The names of twenty-three Nairi lands were recorded by Tiglath-Pileser I (1114–1076 BC). Their southernmost point was Tumme, known to have been south-west of Lake Urmia, and their northern one Daiaeni.1 These lands are known from the list of defeated kings: "the king of Tumme, the king of Tunube, the king of Tuali, the king of Kindari, the king of Uzula, the king of Unzamuni the king of Andiabe, the king of Pilakinni, the king of Aturgini, the king of Kulibarzini, the king of Shinibirni, the king of Himua, the king of Paiteri, the king of Uiram, the king of Shururia, the king of Albaia, the king of Ugina, the king of Nazabia, the king of Abarsiuni, and the king of Daiaeni."2
By some opinions, the Nairi tribes may have been a Hurrian tribe, related to contemporary Mitanni (Götze 1936). Others take this hypothesis skeptically; e.g., Benedict (Benedict 1960) points out that there is no evidence of the presence of Hurrites in the vicinity of Lake Van.
An early, documented reference to Nairi is a tablet dated to the time of Adad-nirari I (13th century BC), which mentions the purchase of 128 horses from the Nairi region.3
The Nairi fought against the southern incursions of the Assyrians and would later unite into Urartu.
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