Syro-Anatolian region

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ancient cultural region historical region

The Syro-Anatolian region is an ancient Near Eastern cultural zone spanning parts of modern Syria and southern Turkey, where diverse Luwian, Aramean, and Neo-Hittite states flourished and interacted.

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All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Syro-Anatolia 1
Syro-Anatolian region canonical 1
Syro-Cilician region 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient cultural region ⓘ
historical region ⓘ
associatedWithEthnicGroup Arameans ⓘ
Luwians ⓘ
Neo-Hittite states ⓘ
surface form: Neo-Hittites
borders Upper Mesopotamia ⓘ
Central Anatolia Region ⓘ
surface form: central Anatolia
contains Aramean kingdoms ⓘ
surface form: Aramean states

Luwian polities ⓘ
surface form: Luwian states

Neo-Hittite states ⓘ
culturallyInfluencedBy Aramean traditions ⓘ
Hittite traditions ⓘ
Luwian traditions ⓘ
Mesopotamian traditions ⓘ
Phoenician traditions ⓘ
flourishedDuring 1st millennium BCE ⓘ
early Iron Age ⓘ
hasArchaeologicalEvidenceOf bilingual inscriptions ⓘ
fortified cities ⓘ
monumental stone sculpture ⓘ
orthostat reliefs ⓘ
palatial complexes ⓘ
hasMajorSite Arpad ⓘ
Karkemish ⓘ
surface form: Carchemish

Guzana ⓘ
Hama ⓘ
Kummuh ⓘ
Melid ⓘ
Sam’al ⓘ
Tell Halaf ⓘ
Zincirli ⓘ
hasPoliticalStructure city-states ⓘ
small kingdoms ⓘ
knownFor Aramaic inscriptions ⓘ
cultural interaction between Luwian, Aramean, and Neo-Hittite polities ⓘ
hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions ⓘ
multilingual inscriptions ⓘ
languageFamilyPresent Akkadian language ⓘ
Aramaic language ⓘ
Cuneiform Luwian ⓘ
surface form: Luwian language
locatedIn Ancient Near East ⓘ
surface form: ancient Near East
partOf Eastern Mediterranean ⓘ
Levant region ⓘ
surface form: Levant
precededBy Hittite Empire ⓘ
spansModernTerritoryOf Syria ⓘ
Turkey ⓘ
southern Anatolia ⓘ
surface form: southern Turkey
studiedInField Assyriology ⓘ
Near Eastern archaeology ⓘ
historical linguistics ⓘ

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Luwian polities → culturalRegion → Syro-Anatolian region ⓘ
Antioch on the Orontes → region → Syro-Anatolian region ⓘ
this entity surface form: Syro-Cilician region
Neo-Hittite states → region → Syro-Anatolian region ⓘ
this entity surface form: Syro-Anatolia