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[[Image:Urartu860-840.png|250px|thumb|Urartu under Aramu]]
'''Arame''' or '''Aramu''' ((Ruled 858–844 BC) was the first known [[monarch|king]] of [[Urartu]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=F_IEAQAAIAAJ&q=%22first+known%22 ''History in Africa''], Volume 2, p. 93. African Studies Association., 1975.</ref>

Living at the time of King [[Shalmaneser III]] of [[Assyria]] (ruled 859–824 BC), Arame fought against the threat of the [[Assyrian Empire]]. His capital at [[Arzashkun]] was captured by Shalmaneser.<ref>The Ancient Assyrians - Page 12 by Mark Healy</ref> Sagunia, a previous capital, which was also captured by Shalamaneser, seems to have been located in the vicinity of [[Lake Van]]<ref>[[Robert Rollinger]]. "From Sargon of Agade and the Assyrian Kings to Khusrau I and Beyond". p. 727. 2012. https://www.academia.edu/1817630/Robert_Rollinger_From_Sargon_of_Agade_and_the_Assyrian_Kings_to_Khusrau_I_and_beyond_on_the_persistence_of_Ancient_Near_Eastern_Traditions_In_Giovanni_B_Lanfranchi_Daniele_Morandi_Bonacossi_C_Pappi_Simonetta_Ponchia_Eds_LEGGO_Studies_presented_to_Prof_Frederick_Mario_Fales_on_the_Occasion_of_his_65th_Birthday_Leipziger_Altorientalische_Studien_2_Wiesbaden_Harrassowitz_2012_725_743</ref><ref>John Boardman, ed. ''The Cambridge Ancient History (3rd Edition)''. Cambridge University Press. 1982. p. 334. https://archive.org/stream/iB_Ca/03-01_djvu.txt</ref><ref>Mack Chahin. ''The Kingdom of Armenia: New Edition''. Routledge. 2001. https://books.google.com/books?id=uXj_AQAAQBAJ&dq=sugunia+urartu&pg=PT60</ref> or [[Lake Urmia]].<ref>Trevor Bryce. ''The Routledge Handbook of the Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia''. Taylor & Francis. p. 665. 2009.</ref><ref>Kamal-Aldin Niknami, Ali Hozhabri, eds. ''Archaeology of Iran in the Historical Period''. p. 41. 2020.</ref>

Arame has been suggested as the prototype of both [[Aram (given name)|Aram]] (and, correspondingly the popular given name [[Aram (given name)|Aram]])<ref>"Արամ" in H. Ačaṙean (1926-35), ''Hayocʿ Anjnanunneri Baṙaran'' (Yerevan: Yerevan State University), 2nd ed., 1942-62</ref> and [[Ara the Beautiful]], two of the legendary forefathers of the [[Armenians|Armenian]] people.<ref>Lang (1970), p. 85.</ref> Khorenatsi's ''[[History of Armenia (Moses of Chorene)|History]]'' (1.5) puts them six and seven generations after [[Hayk|Haik]],<ref>Авдиев В. И. «История Древнего Востока», М.: «Высшая школа», 1970, с. 419 420.</ref> in the chronology of historian [[Mikayel Chamchian]] dated to the 19th to 18th century BC.

The name Arame is likely an Armenian name originally derived from [[Proto-Indo-European language|Proto-Indo-European]] ''*rēmo-'', meaning "black".<ref>Petrosyan, Armen ''The Indo-European and Ancient Near Eastern Sources of the Armenian Epic'' [https://www.academia.edu/3656244/The_Indo-European_and_Ancient_Near_Eastern_Sources_of_the_Armenian_Epic._Washington_D.C._2002] (2002) pp. 73.</ref> The name is likely etymologically related to Hindu [[Rama]].<ref>Petrosyan, Armen. ''Toward the Origins of the Armenian People: The Problem of the Identification of the Proto-Armenians: A Critical Review'' [https://www.academia.edu/3657764/Towards_the_Origins_of_the_Armenian_People._The_Problem_of_Identification_of_the_Proto-Armenians_A_Critical_Review_in_English_] (2007). pp. 31.</ref>

He is not to be confused with another king Aramu (also known as Adramu and Atarsamek) who ruled at the same time in [[Bit Agusi]] and also fought Shalemaneser III.

==See also==
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* [[List of kings of Urartu]]

==References==
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*[[David Marshall Lang]], ''Armenia: Cradle of Civilization'' (1970).


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