Ḥuwallušiya was an ancient region of Anatolia located west of the Kızılırmak River and named in the Annals of Mursili, the Annals of Tudḫaliya and several itineraries of Hittite troop movements in the fifteenth century BC. It was one of the lands of the Assuwa coalition that opposed the Hittites.

Geography

Huwallusiya was located "on the road to Arzawa," "not too far from the Kızılırmak" and was associated in itineraries with "Tummanda, Palunta, [Wal]wara, Hap[puriya], Paparzina, Ussuha...the city of Assuwa...Awina and [Wat]tarwa."Gander, Max. (2022). The West: Philology, p. 265. Hittite Landscape and Geography, Netherlands: Brill. Academia.edu A distinction has been made between Huwallusa (the town) and Huwallusiya (the surrounding countryside), with the former offering no resistance to the Hittites and the latter in active rebellion during the Assuwa campaign.Houwink ten Cate, Philo H. J. (1970). The Records of the Early Hittite Empire (c. 1450-1380 B.C.), pp. 77-78. Archive.org Forlanini places it in western Phyrgia.Forlanini, Massimo. (2008). The Historical Geography of Anatolia and the Transition from the Karum-Period to the Early Hittite Empire. Anatolia and the Jazira During the Old Assyrian Period. 57-86. ResearchGate Woudhuizen locates it much further west at modern Honaz, "along the Classical Lykos, a tributary of the Maiandros corresponding to the present-day Emir or Küçük Menderes and likely referred to in Hittite texts as the Astarpa.Woudhuizen, Fred. (2023), The Luwians of Western Anatolia: Their Neighbours and Predecessors, pp. 21. United Kingdom: Archaeopress Publishing Limited. Academia.edu Oreshko associates it with Mount Hullusiwanda, "situated close to the lands Masa and Ardukka" in classical Mysia.Oreshko, Rostislav. (2013). Geography of the Western Fringes: Gar(a)giša/Gargiya and the Lands of the Late Bronze Age Caria, p. 154. Centre for Hellenic Studies (Harvard University). Academic.edu.

History Huwallusiya is named as a land to which the Hittite general Aranhapilizzi is sent by Mursili I toward the end of the sixteenth century BC as part of his northwest campaigns.Houwink ten Cate, Philo H. J. (1966). Mursilis' Northwestern Campaigns-Additional Fragments of His Comprehensive Annals, Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol. 25, No. 3 University of Chicago

A hundred years later it is mentioned as one of the lands that comprised the Assuwa coalition, a military confederacy that opposed the Hittite army as it campaigned west of the Maraššantiya circa 1430 BC:Cline, E. H. (2015). 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed, p. 28–41. United Kingdom: Princeton University Press. Google BooksBryce, Trevor. (1999). The Kingdom of the Hittites. United Kingdom, Oxford University Press. Google Books.

In the late 1300s during the reign of Arnuwanda I Huwalusa is grouped with Mount Iyawanda and Arziya.

Popular culture

Huwallusiya is mentioned as Huwala and Huwali in fraudulent Luwian hieroglyphic inscriptions from Western Anatolia fabricated by Dutch archaeologist James Mellaart over the course of his career.

See also Ancient regions of Anatolia Assuwa

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