Arpad became for several years an unfailing support to Urartu and the basis on which its rule in Syria rested.
Urartu was also overrun by the fierce barbarians from the north.
Both Urartu and Assyria were sufferers from the brigandage of these allies.
(860-825)—The kingdom of Urartu and its conquering princes: Menuas and Argistis.
The biblical term is the mountains of Ararat or Urartu, and the term includes the whole of the Hakkiari range.