The Contribution of the Hittite Documentation to the Historical Geography of the Middle Orontes Region

This paper presents the testimony of the Hittite documentation relating to the Middle Orontes Region. Generally rather vague, as composed from a distant, supraregional perspective, it can nonetheless be employed, in combination with complementary sources from other regions, to reconstruct an —admittedly still somewhat sketchy— historical and geographical framework for the region. The Hittite material for the Orontes in general is briefly discussed in order to place it in an historical context, within which those sources touching on Middle Orontes toponyms in particular —above all Tunip and Niya, but also the lesser known cities Zinzara and Zulapa— are then assessed more exhaustively

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