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Adadura was an ancient region of Anatolia located west of the Kızılırmak River
The Kızılırmak (, Turkish language, Turkish for "Red River"), once known as the Halys River () and Alis River, is the longest river flowing entirely within Turkey. It is a source of hydroelectric power and is not used for navigation.
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and one of the lands of the Assuwa coalition that opposed the Hittites
The Hittites () were an Anatolian peoples, Anatolian Proto-Indo-Europeans, Indo-European people who formed one of the first major civilizations of the Bronze Age in West Asia. Possibly originating from beyond the Black Sea, they settled in mo ...
. It is mentioned only in the ''Annals of Tudḫaliya'', a text that chronicled the acts of Hittite monarch Tudḫaliya I
Tudḫaliya I (sometimes considered identical with Tudḫaliya II and called Tudḫaliya I/II ) was a Hittite great king in the 15th century BC, ruling perhaps c. 1465–c. 1440 BC
Identity
The numbering of Hittite kings named Tudḫaliya ( ...
.Bryce, Trevor. (1999). ''The Kingdom of the Hittites''. United Kingdom, Oxford University PressGoogle Books
Etymology
The etymology of Adadura is unknown. The Luwian ''ada'' has been classified as a third person plural pronoun comparable to the English-language "their." It was one of six lands the Hittites named using the ''dur'' root, possibly from theAkkadian language
Akkadian ( ; )John Huehnergard & Christopher Woods, "Akkadian and Eblaite", ''The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages''. Ed. Roger D. Woodard (2004, Cambridge) Pages 218–280 was an East Semitic language that is attested ...
''e.durû'' meaning “settlement" and/or "the area around a city or village. The root ''dur'' was commonly appended to the name of cities by the Kassites
The Kassites () were a people of the ancient Near East. They controlled Babylonia after the fall of the Old Babylonian Empire from until (short chronology).
The Kassites gained control of Babylonia after the Hittite sack of Babylon in 1531 B ...
after the Hittite sack of Babylon in 1595 BC and had the meaning "fortification" or "city wall."“dūru A”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD) Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1956–2011
History
Adadura 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 west of the Maraššantiya: The site has yet to be archaeologically located and It does not appear to be attested anywhere else.Gander, Max. (2022). ''The West: Philology'', p. 264-266. Hittite Landscape and Geography, Netherlands: BrillAcademia.edu
/ref> See generally the debate concerning the location of Assuwa.
See also
*Ancient regions of Anatolia
The following is a list of regions of Ancient Anatolia, also known as "Asia Minor." The names reflect changes to languages, settlements and polities from the Bronze Age to conquest by Turkic peoples.
Bronze Age
* Abbawiya
* Adadura
*Adana
* ...
* Assuwa
References
{{Reflist 15th century BC Bronze Age Anatolia