Ancient regions of Anatolia

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The following is a list of regions of

Late Bronze Age regions (circa 1200 BC)

• Asia Minor
  )
• Asia Minor / Anatolia, it was a confederation (or league) of 22 ancient Anatolian states that formed some time before 1400 BC (may have been the origin of the name Asia
  )
  • Adadura
  • Alatra
  • Assuwa Proper
  • Dura
  • Dunda
  • Ḥalluwa
  • Ḥuwallušiya
  • Classical Age
    )
  • Kispuwa
  • Kuruppiya
  • Land of Mount Pahurina
  • Luissa, a name ending in -luišša (or the whole name Luišša)
  • Classical Age
    )
  • Parista
  • Pasuhalta
  • Ilion / Troy by the Greeks
    )
    • Ilion / Troy by the Greeks
      )
  • Unaliya
  • Waršiya / Waršiyalla (Warsiya / Warsiyalla)
  • a name probably ending in -wwa,
  • Unknown (an obliterated name)
  • Unknown (an obliterated name)
  • Unknown (an obliterated name)
  • Ephesos by the Greeks
    ).
    • Greek
      city.
    • Included several of the same regions or lands as the Assuwa League but not the ones that are mentioned below:
  • Known western Anatolian late-Bronze Age regions and/or political entities which, to date, have not been cited as having been part of the Arzawa complex are:
    • Miletos by the Greeks
      )
    • Classical Age
      )
    • Classical Age
      )
  • Hittite
    Asia Minor / Anatolia, it was almost identical to the "Assuwa League" lands or regions, more than to Arzawa
    , that seems to have been smaller and less powerful.
    • Masa or Mysia
      )
      • Classical Age
        ?)
      • Hulana River Land
      • Masa or Mysia
      • Phrygia, East Classical
      • Pitassa
      • Upper
        Saḫiriya by the Hittites
        )
      • Walma
    • Lukka / Lycia
      )
      • Caria
        • Zippasla
      • Lukka / Lycia
        • Classical Age
          ) (Kuwaliya > *Kubaliya > Kabaliya - Cabalia)
        • Siyanta / Siyanda
    • Seha probably was the river that Greeks called Hermos, today's Gediz
      , flowed)
      • Seha
        )
      • Classical Age
        )
      • Maeonia
• Classical Age
  )
• Hittite Empire
  and countries and regions, lands, ruled by it)
  • Hittite Empire and countries and regions ruled by it) (later it was part of Cappadocia and West Pontus
    )
    • Hittite Empire
      for longest time)
  • Nesite speaking) (German name on the map: Unteres Land) (Katerra Udnē was possibly related to the name Katta Peda - "Place Below" or "Place Down", from katta - "below" or "down", and peda - "place", that originated the name Cappadocia through the possible phonetic change - Katt(a)-peda > *Kat-peda > *Kat-pata > *Kat-patu + ka > Kat-patuka > *Kappaduka, borrowed to Greek
    as Kappadokía)
    • Purushanda (an important city in Katerra Udnē - Lowland)
  • Halys river, to the east of Nesa
    region or country.
  • Halys
    river course.
    • Hittite Empire
      , was the capital of the region of the same name.
  • Armenia Minor
    ) (German name on the map: Oberes Land)
  • Pontus Euxinos coast (part of south coast of the Black Sea). Hittites called the Black Sea - "Zalpa Sea" or "Sea of Zalpa
    ".
    • Zalpa / Zalpuwa city, a yet undiscovered Bronze Age
      Anatolian city that was the capital of the region of the same name.
• Kaska people, they could be descendants or related to the Hattians
  )
• Luwiya / Luwa (seems to have included most part of Southern and Southeastern Anatolia that was Luwian speaking) (it was related but not identical to Assuwa and its contemporary Arzawa in Western Anatolia
  )
  • Classical Age
    )
  • Classical Age) (Melid
    was its main centre)
    • Melitene, today's Malatya
      )
  • Classical Age
    )
    • Sea peoples
      , originally came from.
    • Classical Age
      )
  • Luwian
    state in the first millennium BC)
  • Classical Age
    )
    • Old Hebrew name Tubal, son of Japheth, son of Noah, in the Bible
      )
  • Cilicia Aspera), Tarhuntassa was the name not only of a city but also of a region or country in south Anatolia
    .
    • Hittite Empire
      in a country or region of the same name)
  • Nesite
    speaking) (German name on the map: Unteres Land)
• Classical Age
  )
  • Arawana
  • Kalasma
  • Kassiya
  • Kasula
  • Classical Age
    )
  • Classical Age
    )