Pala (Anatolia)
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 The location of Pala in Northern Bronze Age Anatolia
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| Capital | Unknown | |||||||||
| Languages | Palaic | |||||||||
| Religion | Palaic religion | |||||||||
| Government | Not specified | |||||||||
| Historical era | Bronze Age | |||||||||
| • | Established | Unknown | ||||||||
| • | Disestablished | at the latest 1178 BC | ||||||||
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| Today part of |
 Turkey
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Pala (cuneiform pa-la-a) was a Bronze Age country in Northern Anatolia. Nothing more is known about Pala than its native language, which is the Palaic language (palaumnili), and its native religion. The only person known who is of Palaic origin is a ritual priestress Anna.
The country of Pala can be located in the Black Sea region. There are two possibilities where Pala may have laid in this region. The first possibility is the country known as Paphlagonia in classical antiquity. The second possibility is the territory which was called Blaene in antiquity. Both equations are based on phonetic similarity. A country named *Bla leading to Blaene in cuneiform script only could have been written as pa-la-a.
In the old Hittite period Pala was mentioned as administrative area under Hittite jurisdinction in the Hittite laws. At the end of old Hittite Period contact between Hittites and Pala vanished because of the Kaskian capture of the Black Sea region.
The Palaic religion is known from cuneiform ritual texts from the temple of the Palaic storm god in the Hittite capital Ḫattuša where the cult of Palaic deities continued even when contacts between Hittites and Pala had disappeared. The following deities are known:
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