Parista (region)
Parista was one of the lands of the Assuwa coalition that opposed the Hittites in Bronze Age Anatolia. It is named only in the Annals of Tudḫaliya.
Geography
[edit]The site has yet to be archaeologically located. Woudhuizen noted the similarity to the Mycenaean Greek topogram ku-pa-ri-so but did not suggest it denoted the same localization.[1] It does not appear to be attested anywhere else.[2]
History
[edit]Parista is named as one of the lands that comprised the Assuwa coalition, a military confederacy of twenty-two towns that opposed the Hittite army as it campaigned west of the Maraššantiya:
But when I turned back to Hattusa, then against me these lands declared war: [—]lugga, Kispuwa, Unaliya, [—], Dura, Halluwa, Huwallusiya, Karakisa, Dunda, Adadura, Parista, [—], [—]waa, Warsiya, Kuruppiya, [—]luissa, Alatra, Mount Pahurina, Pasuhalta, [—], Wilusiya, Taruisa. [These lands] with their warriors assembled themselves...and drew up their army opposite me...[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Woudhuizen, Fred. (2023), The Luwians of Western Anatolia: Their Neighbours and Predecessors, pp. 8, 11. United Kingdom: Archaeopress Publishing Limited. Academia.edu
- ^ Gander, Max. (2022). The West: Philology, p. 264-266. Hittite Landscape and Geography, Netherlands: Brill. Academia.edu
- ^ Bryce, Trevor. (1999). The Kingdom of the Hittites. United Kingdom, Oxford University Press. Google Books.