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Quwê – also spelled Que , Kue , Qeve , Coa , Kuê and Keveh – was a " Neo-Hittite " Assyrian vassal state or province at various times from the 9th century BC to shortly after the death of Ashurbanipal around 627 BCE in the lowlands of eastern Cilicia , and the name of its capital city, tentatively identified with Adana , in modern Turkey . According to many translations of the Bible , it was the place from which King Solomon obtained horses.

Quwê – also spelled Que , Kue , Qeve , Coa , Kuê and Keveh – was a " Neo-Hittite " Assyrian vassal state or province at various times from the 9th century BCE to shortly after the death of Ashurbanipal around 627 BCE in the lowlands of eastern Cilicia (also known as Hiyawa ), and the name of its capital city, tentatively identified with Adana , in modern Turkey . According to many translations of the Bible , it was the place from which King Solomon obtained horses. The species name of Cyclamen coum probably refers to Quwê. Cyclamen coum subsp. coum Pink Silverleaf at Paghat's Garden

Today part of Turkey Quwê (also spelled Que , Kue , Qeve , Coa , Kuê and Keveh ) was an Iron age, Syro-Hittite , Assyrian vassal kingdom created by Luwians , at times from the 9th century BC to shortly after the death of Ashurbanipal around 627 BC in the lowlands of eastern Cilicia , and the name of its capital city, tentatively identified with Adana , in modern Turkey . The name Que reflects the Assyrian transmission of the indigenous name Hiyawa, the same state is known as Hume from Babylonian sources. The question whether the toponym Hiyawa is related to Ahhiyawa , the Hittite designation of the Mycenaean Greeks , is at present hotly debated. The principal argument in favour of a Greek migration into Cilicia at the end of the Bronze Age is the mention of Muksa/ Mopsos as the founder of the local dynasty in indigenous Luwian and Phoenician inscriptions. According to many translations of the Bible , Quwê ( ) was the place from which Solomon obtained horses. (I Kings 10: 28, 29; II Chron. 1:16) The species name of Cyclamen coum probably refers to Quwê. Trevor Bryce, The land of Hiyawa (Que) revisited, Anatolian Studies 66 (2016): 67–79 Max Gander, Ahhiyawa – Hiyawa – Que: Gibt es Evidenz für die Anwesenheit von Griechen in Kilikien am Übergang von der Bronze- zur Eisenzeit? Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici 54 (2012): 281–309; Rostislav Oreshko, The Achаean hides caged in yonder beams: the value of Hieroglyphic Luwian sign *429 reconsidered and a new light on the Cilician Ahhiyawa, Kadmos 52.1: 19–33; Ilya Yakubovich, Phoenician and Luwian in Early Iron Age Cilicia, Anatolian Studies 65 (2015): 39a; J. Reply to the addendum by J.D. Hawkins, Anatolian Studies 65 (2015): 56-58; Rostislav Oreshko, Once again on the reading of Hieroglyphic Luwian sign *429: the evidence of the newly published ARSUZ inscriptions, N.A.B.U. 2015/3: 123-125 Trevor Bryce, The land of Hiyawa (Que) revisited, Anatolian Studies 66 (2016): 74b Cyclamen coum subsp. coum Pink Silverleaf at Paghat's Garden

Without proper rendering support , you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. Today part of Turkey Ḫiyawa ( Hieroglyphic Luwian : 𔗒𔓱𔗬𔔂 ‎ ) or Adanawa ( Hieroglyphic Luwian : 𔐓𔗢𔗬𔔂 ‎ ) was a Luwian -speaking Syro-Hittite state which existed in southeastern Anatolia in the Iron Age .