Description : Tushhan (also Tushan, or Tušhan) is a Kurdish village known as (Kurdish: Behramki) or (Kurdish: Tepe-i Barava) by residents and It was an ancient city that Assyrian have ruled for some time in Mesopotamia. It was a provincial capital in the upper Tigris river valley, on the south bank and inhabited since the Mitanni period, and mainly during the Neo-Assyrian period during the Iron Age. It is now believed to be located at the site of the modern Ziyaret Tepe (Kurdish: Tepa Barava), Diyarbakır Province, Turkey.
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