Adadura

Adadura was an ancient region of Anatolia located west of the Kızılırmak River and one of the lands of the Assuwa coalition that opposed the Hittites. It is mentioned only in the Annals of Tudḫaliya, a text that chronicled the acts of Hittite monarch Tudḫaliya I.

Etymology

The etymology of Adadura is unknown. The Luwian ada has been classified as a third person plural pronoun comparable to the English-language "their." It was one of six lands the Hittites named using the dur root, possibly from the Akkadian language e.durû meaning “settlement" and/or "the area around a city or village. The root dur was commonly appended to the name of cities by the Kassites after the Hittite sack of Babylon in 1595 BC and had the meaning "fortification" or "city wall."

History

Adadura is named as one of the lands that comprised the Assuwa coalition, a military confederacy of twenty-two towns that opposed the Hittite army as it campaigned west of the Maraššantiya:
The site has yet to be archaeologically located and It does not appear to be attested anywhere else. See generally the debate concerning the location of Assuwa.