Abbawiya
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Abbawiya was an ancient region of Anatolia located in classical Phrygia during the Middle Bronze Age.
Etymology
The etymology of Abbawiya is unknown. It may have been an Arzawan formulaic theophoric name
Heinhold-Krahmer, S. (1977). Arzawa: Unters. zu seiner Geschichte nach d. hethit. Quellen. Germany: Winter. combining dlugal-a-ab-baal-Hamdani, Abdulamir. (2020). "The Settlement and Canal Systems in Lower Southern Mesopotamia During the First Dynasty of the Sealand (1721-1340 BCE). Babylonia Under the Sealand and Kassite Dynasties." (2020). Germany: De Gruyter. with the Luwic suffix wiya ("sent from").Yakubovich, Ilya. (2013). "Anatolian Names in -wiya and the Structure of Empire Luwian Onomastics." Luwian Identities: Culture, Language and Religion Between Anatolia and the Aegean. (2013). Netherlands: Brill.
Geography
Abbawiya is equated with the Classical Abbaitis,Φιλια επη. (1986). Greece: En Athēnais Archaiologikē Hetaireia. a town in the modern Simav District of Kütahya Province.Leschhorn, W. (1993). Antike Ären: Zeitrechnung, Politik und Geschichte im Schwarzmeerraum und in Kleinasien nördlich des Tauros. Germany: Steiner. It "lay on a route between Ialanda and Milawatas" and "was approached by a hill climb."American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts. (1943). United States: Archaeological Institute of America.
History
Abbawiya is mentioned in the final years of the 14th century BC in a treaty between the Hittite king Muršili II and king of the Seha River Land, Manapa-Tarhunta.Beckman, Gary. (1997). "New Joins to Hittite Treaties." Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 87: 96-100 It was located in the Seha River Land and considered part of the Arzawan lands prior to Mursili's "great western campaign."Unwin, N. C. (2017). Caria and Crete in Antiquity: Cultural Interaction Between Anatolia and the Aegean. (n.p.): Cambridge University Press. It was never conquered by the Hittites and simply remained part of Manapa-Tarhunta's kingdom after the breakup of the Arzawan lands into their constituent parts.Oreshko, Rostisla. (2017). "Hartapu and the Land of Maša: A New Look at the KIZILDAĞ-KARADAĞ Group." Altorientalische Forschungen: 44(1). Prior to that it appears to have been a border territory between the Seha River Land and Mira-Kawaliya.