Alashiya (Akkadian: ๐๐ท๐ ๐ Alaลกiya [a-la-ลกi-ia]; Ugaritic: ๐๐๐๐แบขLแนฎY; Linear B: ๐๐จ๐ฏ๐ Alasios [a-ra-si-jo]), also spelled Alasiya, also known as the Kingdom of Alashiya,[1] was a state which existed in the Middle and Late Bronze Ages, and was situated somewhere in the Eastern Mediterranean. It was a major source of goods, especially copper, for ancient Egypt and other states in the Ancient Near East. It is referred to in a number of the surviving texts and is now thought to be the ancient name of Cyprus, or an area of Cyprus. This was confirmed by the scientific analysis performed in Tel Aviv University of the clay tablets which were sent from Alashiya to other rulers.[2]
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^Knapp, A. Bernard. (1985). "J Article Alashiya, Caphtor/Keftiu, and Eastern Mediterranean Trade: Recent Studies in Cypriote Archaeology and History". Journal of Field Archaeology. 12 (2): 231โ250. doi:10.2307/530294. JSTOR 530294.
The Battles of Alashiya were a series of two naval engagements and one joint land and naval operation fought between the Hittite Navy and the Hittite Army...
of graves (long dromoi) and Mycenaean influences in pottery decoration. Alashiya, the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean state that was the major source of...
light on Egyptian relations with Babylonia, Assyria, Syria, Canaan, and Alashiya (Cyprus) as well as relations with the Mitanni, and the Hittites. The letters...
in Amarna letter EA 35, a letter written in Akkadian from the ruler of Alashiya (Cyprus) to the Pharaoh of Egypt during the Amarna Period. It dates from...
Bronze age, from around 1650 BC Cyprus (identified in whole or part as Alashiya in contemporary texts) became more connected to the wider Mediterrean world...
historical figure, but in the case of Ellasar, it is connected to the name Alashiya, not Larsa or Cappadocia. Ellasar is related to the name of Elishah in...
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Amarna letter EA 35, King of Alashiya to Pharaoh, "The Hand of Nergal". Amarna letter EA 35, titled The Hand of...
13th century BC, Ugarit remained in constant touch with Egypt and Cyprus (Alashiya). Mitanni was a loosely organized state in northern Syria and south-east...
the later Sefer haYashar. Sons of Noah Javan Elishah Tarshish Dodanim Alashiya Larnaca The Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible, Volume 2, 1975...
Cypriots, as in ancient times the island of Cyprus or part of it was known as Alashiya. According to the Jewish encyclopedia Elishah is to be identified with...
Suppiluliuma II, the king of the Hittites, defeated and burned a fleet from Alashiya (modern Cyprus). In the decisive 480 B.C. Battle of Salamis, the Greek...
Hittite Empire fell, as did the Mycenaean civilization, the kingdom of Alashiya (which consisted of part or all of Cyprus) and Ugarit, and other cultures...
land could stand before their arms, from Hatti, Kode, Carchemish, Arzawa, Alashiya on being cut off. [ie: cut down]" Ramesses' comments about the scale of...
destruction of the city speak of attack from the sea, and a letter from Alashiya (Cyprus) speaks of cities already being destroyed by attackers who came...
land could stand before their arms, from Hatti, Kode, Carchemish, Arzawa, Alashiya on being cut off. [ie: cut down]" After defeating the Sea Peoples on land...
Urshu Mitanni Canaan Ancient Israel and Judah Ancient Palestine Phoenicia Alashiya Aram Neo-Hittite states Nabatea Iturea Seleucid Empire Coele-Syria Roman...
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