List of ancient Anatolian peoples

This is a list of ancient Anatolian peoples who lived in Anatolia, specifically those associated with the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family, the Anatolian languages.

Ancestors

Proto-Indo-Europeans – Proto-Indo-European speakers Proto-Anatolians – Indo-European Proto-Anatolian speakers

Hittites (Nesitic/Central Anatolians) Hittites / Nesites (𒉈𒅆𒇷 – Nesumines) Cappadocians / Leucosyri? – according to Herodotus, Cappadocians and Leucosyri were the same people.Herodotus, Histories Cappadocians was the Persian name and Leucosyri the Greek name. Cappadocians also inhabited the West Pontus that was originally part of Cappadocia.Herodotus, Histories Amiseni? – inhabited Themiscyra district in West Pontus Cases/Kases? West Pontians?

Luwics (Southern Anatolians) Luwians Cataonians – possibly assimilated by the Cappadocians in the Classical Age; in the Bronze Age and early Iron Age, Cataonia was part of the Neo-Hittite kingdoms who spoke Luwian; in classical antiquity, Strabo states that although they were distinct peoples, they spoke the same language as the Cappadocians."And Cataonia, also, is a tenth portion of Cappadocia. In my time each of the two countries had its own prefect; but since, as compared with the other Cappadocians, there is no difference to be seen either in the language or in any other usages of the Cataonians, it is remarkable how utterly all signs of their being a different tribe have disappeared. At any rate, they were once a distinct tribe, but they were annexed by Ariarathes, the first man to be called king of the Cappadocians." Strabo in Geographica, Book XII, Chapter 1. https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Strabo/12A*.html Cilicians Danuna"A dictionary of archaeology", Ian Shaw, Robert Jameson. Wiley-Blackwell, 2002. , . p. 515The journal of Egyptian archaeology, Volumes 47–49. Egypt Exploration Fund, Egypt Exploration Society. 1961. p. 80 – lived in the "Land of the Danuna"; may have been the inhabitants of Adana, Adaniya or Ataniya city and region in Cilicia and also may have been the people called Denyen, one of the Sea Peoples, by the ancient Egyptians Clitae – recorded by Tacitus to have lived in the Taurus Mountains range during the reign of Archelaus of Cappadocia, primarily on two hills named Cadra and DavaraAnnals (Tacitus) 6.41 Isaurians Lycaonians Philistines? – may have been called the Peleset, one of the Sea Peoples, by the ancient Egyptians Southwest Carians*Strabo. Geographica, 12.8.5. "Not only the Carians, who in earlier times were islanders, but also the Leleges, as they say, became mainlanders with the aid of the Cretans, who founded, among other places, Miletus, having taken Sarpedon from the Cretan Miletus as founder; and they settled the Termilae in the country which is now called Lycia; and they say that these settlers were brought from Crete by Sarpedon, a brother of Minos and Rhadamanthus, and that he gave the name Termilae to the people who were formerly called Milyae, as Herodotus says, and were in still earlier times called Solymi, but that when Lycus the son of Pandion went over there he named the people Lycians after himself. Now this account represents the Solymi and the Lycians as the same people, but the poet makes a distinction between them." LelegesStrabo. Geographica, 12.8.5. "Not only the Carians, who in earlier times were islanders, but also the Leleges, as they say, became mainlanders with the aid of the Cretans, who founded, among other places, Miletus, having taken Sarpedon from the Cretan Miletus as founder; and they settled the Termilae in the country which is now called Lycia; and they say that these settlers were brought from Crete by Sarpedon, a brother of Minos and Rhadamanthus, and that he gave the name Termilae to the people who were formerly called Milyae, as Herodotus says, and were in still earlier times called Solymi, but that when Lycus the son of Pandion went over there he named the people Lycians after himself. Now this account represents the Solymi and the Lycians as the same people, but the poet makes a distinction between them."* Pamphylians (Non-Hellenics) Pisidio-Sidians Pisidians / Pamphylians – Pamphylians, on the coast, and Pisidians, in the inland, were the same people and spoke the same language, but Anatolian Pamphylians were more Greek influenced since Iron Age. There was an Anatolian Pamphylian dialect, part of the Pisidian language, and a Pamphylian Greek dialect, part of Ancient Greek, depending on the degree of Hellenization. Homanades – Homana or Homona was their main settlement Sidians – in Side region Solymoi / Solymi – according to Strabo, this was the older name of the Milyans. They may have been the same people as the Lycians.Strabo. Geographica, 12.8.5. "Not only the Carians, who in earlier times were islanders, but also the Leleges, as they say, became mainlanders with the aid of the Cretans, who founded, among other places, Miletus, having taken Sarpedon from the Cretan Miletus as founder; and they settled the Termilae in the country which is now called Lycia; and they say that these settlers were brought from Crete by Sarpedon, a brother of Minos and Rhadamanthus, and that he gave the name Termilae to the people who were formerly called Milyae, as Herodotus says, and were in still earlier times called Solymi, but that when Lycus the son of Pandion went over there he named the people Lycians after himself. Now this account represents the Solymi and the Lycians as the same people, but the poet makes a distinction between them."* Milyans / Milyae – Lycian B speakersStrabo. Geographica, 12.8.5. "Not only the Carians, who in earlier times were islanders, but also the Leleges, as they say, became mainlanders with the aid of the Cretans, who founded, among other places, Miletus, having taken Sarpedon from the Cretan Miletus as founder; and they settled the Termilae in the country which is now called Lycia; and they say that these settlers were brought from Crete by Sarpedon, a brother of Minos and Rhadamanthus, and that he gave the name Termilae to the people who were formerly called Milyae, as Herodotus says, and were in still earlier times called Solymi, but that when Lycus the son of Pandion went over there he named the people Lycians after himself. Now this account represents the Solymi and the Lycians as the same people, but the poet makes a distinction between them." Lycians / Termilae (𐊗𐊕𐊐𐊎𐊆𐊍𐊆 – Trm̃mili = Trəmmili (m̃ = əm))Strabo. Geographica, 12.8.5. "Not only the Carians, who in earlier times were islanders, but also the Leleges, as they say, became mainlanders with the aid of the Cretans, who founded, among other places, Miletus, having taken Sarpedon from the Cretan Miletus as founder; and they settled the Termilae in the country which is now called Lycia; and they say that these settlers were brought from Crete by Sarpedon, a brother of Minos and Rhadamanthus, and that he gave the name Termilae to the people who were formerly called Milyae, as Herodotus says, and were in still earlier times called Solymi, but that when Lycus the son of Pandion went over there he named the people Lycians after himself. Now this account represents the Solymi and the Lycians as the same people, but the poet makes a distinction between them."* Telchines? Lasonians? () – part of the 2nd Taxation district of the Persian EmpireHistories (Herodotus) 3.90 Cabalians? () – part of the 2nd Taxation district of the Persian EmpireHistories (Herodotus) 3.90 Hytennians? () – part of the 2nd Taxation district of the Persian EmpireHistories (Herodotus) 3.90

Possible Western Anatolians Related to but not part of Luwics: Lydians / Maeonians (Maíones, 𐤮𐤱𐤠𐤭𐤣𐤸𐤯𐤦𐤳 – Śfardẽtis) Kaystrianoi / Caystriani Kilbianoi / Cilbiani Trojans / Taruisans?, pp. 129–133.*, pp. 49–72Watkins, Calvert (1986), "The language of the Trojans" in Troy and the Trojan War: a symposium held at Bryn Mawr College, October 1984 ed. M. J. Mellink. Bryn Mawr.

Palaics (Northern Anatolian) Palaics* – in Pala region, northern Anatolia or Asia Minor Paphlagonians – mainly in Paphlagonia, roughly matching Pala, northern Anatolia or Asia Minor CauconesWainwright JEA 47 (1967) 71 note 5; Albright BASOR 55 (1959) 33ff.LacusCurtius / Kaukauni? Eneti / Heneti? MariandyniPliny the Elder, Natural History 6.1.Scylax, p. 34

Possible Anatolian (Indo-European) peoples Mysians? – may have been more related to the Phrygians, a non Anatolian Indo-European people, and therefore may not have been an Anatolian Indo-European people. Mysia was also known as Phrygia Hellespontica, though they probably mixed with an Anatolian people closer to the Lydians, which would explain some statements by ancient authors such as Strabo when he stated that the Mysian language was, in a way, a mixture of the Lydian and Phrygian languages. Milatai / Milatae?

List of ancient Anatolian peoples

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