Halluwa was an ancient region of Anatolia and one of the lands of the Assuwa coalition that opposed the Hittites toward the end of the fifteenth century BC. It is named only in the Annals of Tudḫaliya, a text that chronicled the acts of Hittite monarch Tudḫaliya I.
Etymology
Halluwa is an atypical plural form of the transliteration ḫalluw-uš meaning "deep",Merchert, Craig. (2019). "Hittite Historical Phonology After 100 Years," p. 271. Hrozný and Hittite: The First Hundred Years. (2019). Netherlands: Brill.Puhvel, J. (2011). Words Beginning with H. Germany: De Gruyter. probably used by the Hittites as a toponym for a gorge or valley.Angel, J. L. (1986). Troy and the Trojan War: A Symposium Held at Bryn Mawr College, October 1984. United States: Bryn Mawr College.
Geography
The site has yet to be archaeologically located.Gander, Max. (2022). The West: Philology, p. 264-266. Hittite Landscape and Geography, Netherlands: Brill. Academia.edu Woudhuizen believed it was somewhere to the northwest of Sardis in classical Lydia.Woudhuizen, F. (2018). The Luwians of Western Anatolia: Their Neighbours and Predecessors. United Kingdom: Archaeopress Publishing Limited. It has been alternatively localized somewhere in the Ihlara valley in Cappadocia.Freely, J. (1998). The Western Interior of Turkey. Türkiye: SEV Matbaacılık ve Yayıncılık.
History
Halluwa is named as one of the lands that comprised the Assuwa league, a military confederacy of twenty-two towns that opposed the Hittite army as it campaigned west of the Maraššantiya:
As with most of the Assuwan states, it has yet to be located archaeologically. The coalition appears to have been destroyed sometime after 1430 BC.Cline, E. H. (2015). 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed, p. 28–41. United Kingdom: Princeton University Press. Google Books
See also Ancient regions of Anatolia Assuwa
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