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The Anatolians were a group of Indo-European peoples who inhabited Anatolia as early as the 3rd millennium BC. Identified by their use of the now-extinct Anatolian languages, [1] they were one of the oldest collective Indo-European ethno-linguistic groups and also one of the most archaic, as they were among the first peoples to separate from the Proto-Indo-Europeans, who gave origin to the ...
This is a list of ancient Anatolian peoples who inhabited most of Anatolia (or Asia Minor).). “Anatolian” here has the meaning of an Indo-European branch of peoples that lived in the Anatolia Peninsula or Asia Minor, although not all ancient peoples that dwelt in this Peninsula were Indo-Europeans.
Pisidians / Pamphylians (Pamphylians, on the coast, and Pisidians, in the inland, were the same people and spoke the same language, the difference was that Anatolian Pamphylians were more Greek influenced since Iron Age) (there was an Anatolian Pamphylian dialect, part of the Pisidian language, and a Pamphylian Greek dialect, part of Ancient ...
The history of Anatolia (often referred to in historical sources as Asia Minor) can be roughly subdivided into: Prehistory of Anatolia (up to the end of the 3rd millennium BCE), Ancient Anatolia (including Hattian, Hittite and post-Hittite periods), Classical Anatolia (including Achaemenid, Hellenistic and Roman periods), Byzantine Anatolia (later overlapping, since the 11th century, with the ...
Articles relating to the Anatolian peoples, Indo-European peoples of the Anatolian Peninsula in present-day Turkey, identified by their use of the Anatolian languages.These peoples were among the oldest Indo-European ethnolinguistic groups, and one of the most archaic, because Anatolians were the first or among the first branches of Indo-European peoples to separate from the initial Proto-Indo ...
The Anatolian hypothesis, first developed by British archaeologist Colin Renfrew in 1987, proposes that the dispersal of Proto-Indo-Europeans originated in Neolithic Anatolia. It is the main competitor to the Kurgan hypothesis, or steppe theory, the more favoured view academically.
Byzantine Anatolian Themata circa 950 A.D The themata of the East Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire), at the death of Basil II in 1025. The Themata were combined Military and Administrative divisions of the Byzantine Empire ( East Roman Empire ) which replaced the Roman provincial system in the 7th-8th century and reached their height in the 9th ...
'Gauls') were a Celtic people dwelling in Galatia, a region of central Anatolia in modern-day Turkey surrounding Ankara during the Hellenistic period. [1] They spoke the Galatian language, which was closely related to Gaulish, a contemporary Celtic language spoken in Gaul. [2] [3]