Van Gölü kenarında bir sayfiye şehri olan (Tuşba) Turuşba’yı Urartulu kumandan Van, îmar etmiştir. Zamanla Turuşba ismi yerine Van ismi kullanılmaya başlanmıştır. Van şehrini ilk kuran Asur kraliçesi Semiramis’tir ve annesinin ismini vermiştir.
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Can't understand what is happening to me,
This isn't real, this is only a dream,
But I never have felt, no I never have felt this way before,
I'm looking down on my body below,
I lie asleep in the midst of a dream,
Is it now could it be that the angel of death has come for me?
I can't believe that really my time has come,
I don't feel ready, there's so much left undone,
And it's my soul and I'm not gonna let it get away.
Heaven can wait