Quwê – also spelled Que, Kue, Qeve, Coa, Kuê and Keveh – was a Syro-Hittite

Assyria Assyria (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: , romanized: ''māt Aššur''; syc, ܐܬܘܪ, ʾāthor) was a major ancient Mesopotamian civilization which existed as a city-state at times controlling regional territories in the indigenous lands of the A ...

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or province at various times from the 9th century BC to shortly after the death of Ashurbanipal around

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in the lowlands of eastern

Cilicia Cilicia (); el, Κιλικία, ''Kilikía''; Middle Persian: ''klkyʾy'' (''Klikiyā''); Parthian: ''kylkyʾ'' (''Kilikiyā''); tr, Kilikya). is a geographical region in southern Anatolia in Turkey, extending inland from the northeastern coa ...

, and the name of its capital city, tentatively identified with

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, in modern

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. The name Que reflects the Assyrian transmission of the indigenous name Hiyawa, the same state is known as Hume from Babylonian sources. The question whether the toponym Hiyawa is related to Ahhiyawa, the Hittite designation of Mycenaean Greeks, is at present hotly debated. The principal argument in favour of a Greek migration into

at the end of the Bronze Age is the mention of Muksa/

Mopsos Mopsus (; Ancient Greek: Μόψος, ''Mopsos'') was the name of one of two famous seers in Greek mythology; his rival being Calchas. A historical or legendary ''Mopsos'' or ''Mukšuš'' may have been the founder of a house in power at widespread ...

as the founder of the local dynasty in indigenous Luwian and Phoenician inscriptions. According to many translations of the

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, Quwê was the place from which King Solomon obtained horses. (I Kings 10: 28, 29; II Chron. 1:16) The species name of ''

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'' probably refers to Quwê.''Cyclamen coum'' subsp. ''coum'' Pink Silverleaf
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Simo Parpola Simo Kaarlo Antero Parpola (born 4 July 1943) is a Finnish Assyriologist specializing in the Neo-Assyrian Empire and Professor emeritus of Assyriology at the University of Helsinki (retired fall 2009). Career Simo Parpola studied Assyriology, C ...

and

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, editors, '' The Helsinki Atlas of the Near East in the Neo-Assyrian Period'', (Helsinki, Finland, 2001), Gazetteer, p. 15. *Mirko Novák and Andreas Fuchs, Azatiwada, Awariku from the House of Mopsos, and Assyria. On the Dating of Karatepe in Cilicia, in: A. Payne, Š. Velharticka, J. Wintjes (ed.), ''Beyond all Boundaries. Anatolia in the 1st Millennium B.C. OBO 295'' (Leuven, 2021), pp. 397-466. * Mirko Novák, Kizzuwatna, Ḥiyawa, Quwe – Ein Abriss der Kulturgeschichte des Ebenen Kilikien, in J. Becker / R. Hempelmann / E. Rehm (ed.), ''Kulturlandschaft Syrien – Zentrum und Peripherie. Festschrift für Jan-Waalke Meyer, Alter Orient und Altes Testament 371'', Ugarit-Verlag Münster 2010, pp. 397–425. * Cilicia Chronology Group: A Comparative Stratigraphy of Cilicia. Results of the first three Cilician Chronology Workshops, in: ''Altorientalische Forschungen 44/2'', 2017, pp. 150–186.

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I Kings 10: 28, 29 in different translations of the Bible
{{DEFAULTSORT:Quwe Syro-Hittite states Hebrew Bible places

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