Diauehi
Diauehi დიაოხი Diaokhi | |
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| 12th century BC[a]–8th century BCE | |
| Capital | Zua |
| Common languages | Armenian language Kartvelian languages Hurrian language |
| King | |
• Approx. BC 1120 – BC 1100 | Sien |
• Approx. BC 850 – BC 825 | Asia |
• Approx. BC 810 – BC 770 | Utupursi (last) |
| History | |
• Established | 12th century BC[a] |
| 8th century BCE | |
• Disestablished | 8th century BCE |
| Today part of | Turkey |
| History of Armenia |
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Diauehi (Modern Georgian: დიაოხი Diaokhi, Urartian Diauehi, Greek Τάοχοι Taochoi, Armenian Տայք Tayk, possibly Assyrian Daiaeni) was a tribal union located in northeastern Anatolia, that was recorded in Assyrian and Urartian sources during the Iron Age. It is usually (though not always) identified with the earlier Daiaeni (Dayaeni), attested in the Yonjalu inscription of the Assyrian king Tiglath-Pileser I's third year (1118 BC) and in later records by Shalmaneser III (845 BC). While it is unknown what language(s) they spoke,: 205 they may have been speakers of a Kartvelian, Armenian, Iranian, or Hurrian language.