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Manava (Pamphylia)

Coordinates:36°47′13″N31°26′49″E / 36.787064°N 31.4469115°E /36.787064; 31.4469115
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Manava (also rendered asManauna,Manavva orManaua tamnoa) was a town ofancient Pamphylia, inhabited duringByzantine times.[1]

Its site is located nearManavgat, inAsiatic Turkey.[1][2]

Terminology

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Manaua is an obscureethnonym ortoponym attested in a limited number of LateHittite inscriptions and later Late Antique geographical traditions. The exact location, cultural affiliation and historical continuity of the term remain uncertain.[3]

The variant spellings of the name derive fromorthographic corruption, divergent scribal traditions and later Hellenised forms. ALuwian–Neo-Hittite origin has been proposed, though no consensus exists.

Historical attestations (chronological)

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Late Hittite / Iron Age (9th–8th century BC)

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  • **Kululu Inscription (8th century BC)**: Possibly contains the earliest attestation of the name, referring to a community or polity labelled “Manawa/Manaua,” though the reading is debated.[4]

Hellenistic period

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  • The name is not directly attested; however, later geographers mention archaic ethnonyms believed to derive from earlier Iron Age groups in inlandAnatolia.

Roman Imperial period

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  • References inPliny andPtolemy have been suggested but remain controversial and may reflect textual corruption rather than genuine historical data.

Late Antiquity

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  • Byzantine chroniclers occasionally listManaua among “forgotten peoples or regions,” with speculative identifications emerging in this period.[5]

Proposed locations

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Scholarly hypotheses include:

  • **Cappadocia** – The most widely accepted possibility, aligned withIron Age settlement patterns.
  • **Lycaonia–Isauria** – Suggested due to onomastic parallels in regional place names.
  • **Paphlagonia** – Based on theories of post-Hittite ethnonym shifts toward northern Anatolia.

Etymology

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A derivation from Luwian *Mana-wa* has been proposed. Superficial similarity to the ethnonym “Mannaeans” has been rejected due to geographic and cultural incompatibility.

Modern scholarly debate

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Interpretations ofManaua vary widely, casting it as:

  • an **ethnic group**,
  • a **micro-region**, or
  • a **political/tribal unit**

within Iron Age Anatolia.

References

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  1. ^abRichard Talbert, ed. (2000).Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 65, and directory notes accompanying.ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
  2. ^Lund University.Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
  3. ^William Smith (ed.),Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, London 1873.
  4. ^J. D. Hawkins,Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions, Vol. I–II, 2000.
  5. ^F. Dölger,Byzantinische Studien, 1954.

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