Cihanbeyli is a municipality and district of Konya Province , Turkey . Its area is 3,702 km, and its population is 50,677 (2022).
6-534: Cihanbeyli was part of Pitassa in antiquity. There are 47 neighbourhoods in Cihanbeyli District: Cihanbeyli's climate is classified as cold semi-arid ( Köppen : BSk ). The town experiences hot, dry summers and cold, snowy winters. Cihanbeyli district has a significant Kurdish population from various tribes. This geographical article about a location in Konya Province , Turkey
12-497: A contingent that served under the Hittite army. In these documents, it was referred to as P-d-s or the equivalent of Pitassa and was located in the area of Salt Lake (Tuz Golu) and the plains of Konya . The city during this period was recorded as a subject of the kingdom of Hatti. Pitassa is cited in several historical documents such as the case of Hittite treaties that included the descriptions of boundaries and towns. These include
18-586: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Pitassa Pitassa is an as-yet undiscovered frontier land/city in western Anatolia , mentioned in Bronze Age archives at Hattusa . The name seems Luwian or considered Hittite. "[T]he place name Pedessa is presumably the derivative of the equivalent of the Hitt.[ite] peda - place in Luwian, where the form pida- is postulated." Pitassa lay somewhere west of
24-563: The Salt Lake . It has been described as "the region at the 'foot' of the Sultan Mountains and stretching northward all the way to the Sakarya River and Gordion near Polatlı ." It occasionally formed the border between Hatti and various iterations of Arzawa . Another account referred to it as an imperial geographical designation (also called Pedassa) for the region found at
30-524: The foot of the Sultan Mountains and extend northwards all the way to the Sakarya River and Gordion near Polath. It is also described as part of the region of Classical Lycaonia , which was located east of the Salt Lake . Madduwatta wrested Pitassa from Arnuwanda I in the late 15th century BC. This figure was described as a freebooter and he forced the inhabitants of Pitassa to swear loyalty to himself. Decades later Suppiluliuma I retook it while he
36-476: Was the crown prince acting in behalf of his father. The city was included in the list of conquered territories cited in the Deeds of Suppiluliuma . Mashuiluwa of Mira then incited it to revolt c. 1310 BC, after which Mursili II moved upon it and resubjugated it. One of the earliest records of Pitassa involve the account of Egyptian scribes of the battle of Qadesh in 1275 B.C. During the conflict, Pitassa provided
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