Ištuanda
Ištuanda ( akk-x-neoassyr, ) or Ištunda ( akk-x-neoassyr, ) was a Luwian-speaking Syro-Hittite state which existed in the region of Tabal in southeastern Anatolia in the Iron Age. Geography Ištuanda was located in northern Cappadocia, in the northwestern part of the Tabalian region close to the kingdom of Atuna and near what is presently Aksaray. History Bronze Age The territory that later became Ištuanda might have corresponded to the region which was referred to in Hittite texts from the Late Bronze Age as Wašuduwanda (), which was the site of a shrine to the goddess Ḫepat. Iron Age Kingdom of Ištuanda By , the Tabalian region, including Ištuanda, had become a tributary of the Neo-Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser III, possibly after his conquest of Arpad over the course of 743 to 740 BC caused the states of the Tabalian region to submit to him, or possibly as a result of a campaign of Tiglath-pileser III in Tabal. Consequently, in 738 and 732 BCE, the king Tu ...
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Tabal (region)
Tabal ( akk-x-neoassyr, , translit=māt Tabal and , romanized: ) was a region which covered south-east Anatolia during the Iron Age. Name The native name of the region of Tabal is still unknown, although it might have been ( hlu, ), which is attested in inscriptions from Karkamiš. However, in the absence of native Tabalian inscriptions containing this name, this identification cannot yet be confirmed. The origin of the name is also uncertain since it was not used for the Tabalian region in the Late Bronze Age. Tabal As exonym Due to the absence of the name or any other name similar to it in native Central Anatolian sources of the Iron Age and the lack of its attestation to designate this area in Old and Middle Assyrian sources, this name tends to be considered by historians to have been an exonym given to the region by the Neo-Assyrian Empire. was likely an Akkadian term meaning "bank" or "shore" of a body of water, in reference to the kingdom and region of Tabal bein ...
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