Que (Cilician kingdom)

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Que (Cilician kingdom) was an Iron Age Neo-Hittite/Luwian kingdom located in southeastern Anatolia, roughly corresponding to eastern Cilicia in present-day Turkey.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Iron Age polity
Luwian kingdom
Neo-Hittite kingdom
historical region
borderedBy Assyrian-controlled territories
Hilakku NERFINISHED
Tabal NERFINISHED
economyBasedOn agriculture
trade
flourishedDuring 8th century BCE
9th century BCE
hasAlternativeName Adanawa NERFINISHED
Kue NERFINISHED
Que NERFINISHED
Quwe NERFINISHED
hasArchaeologicalEvidenceAt Adana region NERFINISHED
Cilician plain sites
hasCapitalCandidate Adana NERFINISHED
hasCategory Ancient kingdoms of Anatolia
History of Cilicia
Neo-Hittite states NERFINISHED
hasCulturalAffiliation Neo-Hittite NERFINISHED
hasEthnoLinguisticCharacter Luwian
hasLanguage Luwian
hasTypeOfGovernment monarchy
hasWritingSystem Akkadian cuneiform (in Assyrian records)
Luwian hieroglyphs NERFINISHED
integratedInto Neo-Assyrian Empire NERFINISHED
knownFor fertile plains
strategic location between Anatolia and Syria
locatedIn eastern Cilicia NERFINISHED
southeastern Anatolia
locatedInPresentDay Turkey
locatedNear Cilician plain NERFINISHED
eastern Mediterranean coast
mentionedIn Assyrian sources
partOf Cilicia NERFINISHED
Luwian states of Anatolia NERFINISHED
Neo-Hittite cultural sphere NERFINISHED
partOfHistoricalContext post-Hittite states
politicalStatus vassal state of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
regionType Syro-Anatolian state NERFINISHED
religion Luwian-Hittite polytheism
subjectTo Assyrian military campaigns NERFINISHED
succeeded Hittite Empire (in its territory) NERFINISHED
timePeriod 1st millennium BCE
Iron Age

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