Tabal
Tabal may refer to: * Tabal (region), a region of southern Central Anatolia during the Iron Age. * Tabal (state), a Luwian-speaking Syro-Hittite petty kingdom that existed during the Iron Age. {{disambiguation ...
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Tabal (region)
Tabal ( and , romanized: ) was a region which covered south-east Anatolia during the Iron Age. A Luwian-speaking Syro-Hittite Tabal state existed at that time in this area. Name The native name of the region of Tabal is still unknown, although it might have been (), 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 k ...
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