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Its center was the Armenian highland between Lake Van, Lake Urmia, and Lake Sevan. It s first mentioned as “Nairi countries” in Assyrian sources in the time of Salmanasser I, 1274 BCE.</p></p> <small><em>This Article Has Images/Tables.</em></small> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/urdu">URDU</span></a></h2> <h3>David Matthews</h3> <p><p>National language (<em>qaum墨 zab膩n</em>) of Pakistan and one of the fifteen officially recognized languages of India. It is spoken, according to recent censuses made in India and Pakistan, by an estimated 53 million people in the South Asian subcontinent.</p></p> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/urgut">URGUT</span></a></h2> <h3>Alexei Savchenko</h3> <p><p>town ca. 30 km southeast of Samarkand, Uzbekistan, containing monuments of  significance. Urgut is first mentioned as the location of a monastery of the Church of the East. Finds include wearable crosses of iron, ceramic wares with Christian motifs, a bronze censer,  and fragments of stucco decoration.</p></p> <small><em>This Article Has Images/Tables.</em></small> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/urmia-orthodokseta">URMIA ORTHODOKSETA</span></a></h2> <h3>Lina Yakubova</h3> <p><p>a monthly periodical published in Urmia by the Russian Orthodox Church Mission from 1904 to 1914, with one interruption.</p></p> <small><em>This Article Has Images/Tables.</em></small> </li> <li > <h2><a href="/articles/urmia-lake">Urmia, Lake</span></a></h2> <h3>Eckhart Ehlers</h3> <p><p>Fluctuations of Lake Urmia’s size and oscillations of its water table are closely connected with the geographical environment of its basin.  Like so many other drainage basins in Iran, Lake Urmia is the center of an internal drainage basin and distinctly separated from other basins by a high mountain environment on all sides. </p></p> <small><em>This Article Has Images/Tables.</em></small> </li> <li class="odd"> <h2><a href="/articles/urshan-andrew">URSHAN, ANDRE艑S BAR D膧W莫D</span></a></h2> <h3>Stephen A. 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