Halluwa

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Land of Luwiya

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.

Halluwa is an atypical plural form of the transliteration ḫalluw-uš meaning "deep",[1][2] probably used by the Hittites as a toponym for a gorge or valley.[3]

Geography

The site has yet to be archaeologically located.[4] Woudhuizen believed it was somewhere to the northwest of Sardis in classical Lydia.[5] It has been alternatively localized somewhere in the Ihlara valley in Cappadocia.[6]

History

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