Adadura

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'''Adadura''' was an ancient region of Anatolia located west of the Kızılırmak River and one of the lands of the Assuwa coalition that opposed the Hittites. It is mentioned only in the ''Annals of Tudḫaliya'', a text that chronicled the acts of Hittite monarch Tudḫaliya I.<ref name="Bryce">Bryce, Trevor. (1999). ''The Kingdom of the Hittites''. United Kingdom, Oxford University Press. [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Kingdom_of_the_Hittites/Agg5-lpVI2MC?hl=en&gbpv=0 Google Books].</ref>

==Etymology==

The etymology of Adadura is unknown. The Luwian ''ada'' has been classified as a third person plural pronoun comparable to the English-language "their."<ref>Yakubovich, Ily. (2020). The Luwian Language. [http://web-corpora.net/LuwianCorpus/library/Luw-grammar.pdf Corpora.net]</ref> It was one of six lands the Hittites named using the ''dur'' root,<ref>Weeden, Mark. (2017). A Hittite Tablet from Büklükale. [https://www.academia.edu/88046917/A_Hittite_Tablet_from_Büklükale Academia.edu]</ref><ref>Garstang, J. (2017). The Geography of the Hittite Empire. United Kingdom: British Institute at Ankara.</ref><ref>Kryszeń, A. (2016). A Historical Geography of the Hittite Heartland. Germany: Ugarit-Verlag.</ref> possibly from the Akkadian language ''e.durû'' meaning “settlement"<ref>Zikir Šumim: Assyriological Studies Presented to F.R. Kraus on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday SUJE Kraus, F.R.. (2024). Germany: Brill.</ref> and/or "the area around a city or village.<ref>Hallo, W. W. (1991). The book of the people. Atlanta: Scholars Press.</ref> The root ''dur'' was commonly appended to the name of cities by the Kassites after the Hittite sack of Babylon in 1595 BC<ref name="Bryce"/><ref>Beaulieu, P. (2018). A History of Babylon, 2200 BC - AD 75. United Kingdom: ve beenWiley.</ref> and had the meaning "fortification" or "city wall."<ref>“dūru A”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD)[1], Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1956–2011</ref>

== History ==

Adadura 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:

{{Blockquote |text= 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...<ref name="Bryce"/>}}

The site has yet to be archaeologically located and It does not appear to be attested anywhere else.<ref name="Gander">Gander, Max. (2022). ''The West: Philology'', p. 264-266. Hittite Landscape and Geography, Netherlands: Brill. [https://www.academia.edu/34316588/The_West_Philology_in_Weeden_Mark_Ullmann_Lee_Z_Hg_Hittite_Landscape_and_Geography_Leiden_2017_S_262_280 Academia.edu]</ref> See generally the debate concerning the location of Assuwa.

== See also == *Ancient regions of Anatolia * Assuwa

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