Ancient regions of Anatolia

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The following is a list of regions of Ancient Anatolia, also known as "Asia Minor," in the present day Anatolia region of Turkey in Western Asia.

Late Bronze Age regions (circa 1200 BC)[]

Late Bronze Age regions of Anatolia/Asia Minor (circa 1200 BC) with main settlements.

• Alasiya / Alashiya (later Cyprus in the Classical Age, to the south of mainland Anatolia or Asia Minor)
• Assuwa, roughly most part of West Asia Minor / Anatolia, it was a confederation (or league) of 22 ancient Anatolian states that formed some time before 1400 BC (may have been the origin of the name Asia)
  • Assuwa Proper
  • Karakisa / Karkiya (later Caria in the Classical Age)
  • , a name ending in -luišša (or the whole name Luišša)
  • Lukka / Lugga (later Lycia in the Classical Age)
  • Taruisa (later Troas / Troad? in the Classical Age) (Wilusa / Wilusiya was the capital, has been identified with the city called Ilion / Troy by the Greeks)
    • Wilusa (was the capital of Taruisa, has been identified with the city called Ilion / Troy by the Greeks)
  • / ( / )
  • a name probably ending in -wwa,
  • Unknown (an obliterated name)
  • Unknown (an obliterated name)
  • Unknown (an obliterated name)
  • Arzawa, roughly part of West Asia Minor / Anatolia, it was formed in the second half of the 2nd millennium BC (roughly from the late 15th century BC until the beginning of the 12th century BC). Successor to Assuwa in Western Anatolia (capital was known as Apasa by the Hittites, later called Ephesos by the Greeks).
    • Arzawa Proper, may have been the classical region called Lydia or Maeonia, the then capital was known as Apasa by the Hittites, later called Ephesos by the Greeks, Classical Age capital of Lydia or Maeonia was Sardis and not Ephesus that was then a Greek city.
    • Included several of the same regions or lands as the Assuwa League but not the ones that are mentioned below:
  • Known western Anatolian late-Bronze Age regions and/or political entities which, to date, have not been cited as having been part of the Arzawa complex are:
    • Karkiya (later Caria in the Classical Age) (one of its main coastal cities was called Millawanda by the Hittites, later called Miletos by the Greeks)
    • Lukka / Lugga (later Lycia in the Classical Age)
    • Masa / Land of Masa (later Mysia? in the Classical Age)
  • Hittite Arzawa / Hittite Assuwa, formed by three western provinces (after Hittite Empire conquest), roughly most of Asia Minor / Anatolia, it was almost identical to the "Assuwa League" lands or regions, more than to Arzawa, that seems to have been smaller and less powerful.
    • Hapalla / Haballa (Eastern Arzawa - may have been the upper Sangarios river (today's Sakarya) basin, and the classical regions or parts of east Phrygia, western Galatia and also Masa or Mysia)
      • / (may have been later in the Classical Age?)
      • Masa or Mysia
      • Phrygia, East Classical
      • Pitassa
      • Upper Sangarios river basin (known as Saḫiriya by the Hittites)
    • / (Southern Arzawa - Caria and Lukka / Lycia, contrary to what is shown on the map)
      • Caria
      • Lukka / Lycia
        • (later in the Classical Age) (Kuwaliya > *Kubaliya > Kabaliya - Cabalia)
        • /
    • Seha / Seha River Land (Northern Arzawa - Lydia or Maeonia, Seha probably was the river that Greeks called Hermos, today's Gediz, flowed)
      • Sardis ( Lydian: