Parista was one of the lands of the Assuwa coalition that opposed the Hittites in Bronze Age Anatolia. It is named only in the Annals of Tudḫaliya.
Geography
The site has yet to be archaeologically located. Woudhuizen noted the similarity to the Mycenaean Greek topogram ku-pa-ri-so but did not suggest it denoted the same localization.Woudhuizen, Fred. (2023), The Luwians of Western Anatolia: Their Neighbours and Predecessors, pp. 8, 11. United Kingdom: Archaeopress Publishing Limited. Academia.edu It has been localized somewhere in the Ihlara valley, known as ).Freely, J. (1998). The Western Interior of Turkey. Türkiye: SEV Matbaacılık ve Yayıncılık.
History
Parista is named as one of the lands that comprised the Assuwa coalition, a military confederacy of twenty-two towns that opposed the Hittite army as it campaigned across the Maraššantiya:
Parista does not appear to be attested anywhere else.Gander, Max. (2022). The West: Philology, p. 264-266. Hittite Landscape and Geography, Netherlands: Brill. Academia.edu See generally the debate concerning the location of Assuwa.
See also Ancient regions of Anatolia Assuwa
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