Hilakku (region)
Creators: Jamie Novotny
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/944349914
36.9276367381, 34.04876165
- Representative Locations:
- Less than certain: Representative location of Hilakku 2 (Cilicia Tracheia) (1000 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 4270 meters.
- Less than certain: Representative location of Hilakku 1 (Bolkar Dağları) (1000 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Less than certain: Hilakku (region) same as Cilicia Tracheia (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Hilakku (region) abuts Internum Mare (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Hilakku (region) abuts Que (kingdom) (1000 BC - 720 BC)
- *Kuzzurak located near Hilakku (region) (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Less than certain: Bīt-Purutaš (kingdom) abuts Hilakku (region) (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Less than certain: Illubru part of (regional) Hilakku (region) (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Mersin-Yumuktepe located near Hilakku (region) (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Que (province) abuts Hilakku (region) (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Tabālu (region) abuts Hilakku (region) (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Tarsus/Antiochia ad Cydnum located near Hilakku (region) (1000 BC - 540 BC)
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Neo-Assyrian royal inscriptions indicate that Hilakku was a mountainous region; the seventh-century-BC king Esarhaddon (r. 680-669 BC) reports that he conquered twenty-one fortresses and small settlements in the area, but no capital is mentioned. Hilakku might have shared a border with Bīt-Purutaš and might have temporarily been incorporated into the Assyrian Empire together. However, given the available geographic evidence in Neo-Assyrian sources (especially in annalistic texts), it is uncertain if Bīt-Purutaš and Hilakku bordered one another, especially since other principalities/city-states/small kingdoms appears to have been between them (for example *Tuhana).
E. Forrer wrongly suggested that Hilakku was in the vicinity of Kayseri on the basis of the erroneous assumption that a city of the same name was to be identified with classical Masaka (modern Kayseri) and that Hilakku was identical to classical Cilicia.
Hilakku is referred to as Piriddu/Pirindu in Neo-Babylonian sources.
Jamie Novotny, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Hilakku (region): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/944349914> [accessed: 21 November 2024]
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