Harrua
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37.1359885184, 35.0714001733
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- Harrua (Akkadian, 1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Less than certain: Harrua located near Kilikiai Pylai (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Harrua part of (administrative) Phrygia (kingdom) (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Harrua part of (administrative) Que (kingdom) (1000 BC - 720 BC)
- Harrua part of (administrative) Que (province) (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Less than certain: Harrua located near Taurus (mountain range) (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Qumasi located near Harrua (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Ušnanis located near Harrua (1000 BC - 540 BC)
unlocated, fort, tower (deprecated)
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The location of Harrua is presently unknown. From the inscriptions of Sargon II, it is certain that it was near another Quean fortress (Ušnanis), a place that was also taken away from Que by the Phrygians. One text of that Assyrian king mentions Harrua and Ušnanis together with a third fortress: Qumasi.
E. Forrer (1920) and P. Naster (1938) tentatively identified Harrua with classical Seleucia ad Calycadnum/Hyria (modern Silifke), in Cilicia Tracheia. That proposed location, however, is well outside the territorial reach of Que (as already note, e.g., by A. Bagg [2007]) and, therefore, one must look for a location a bit closer to Que (Cilicia Pedias), perhaps near the Cilician Gates.
Jamie Novotny, 'Harrua: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/930131678> [accessed: 19 April 2024]
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