Adam Kryszen's book reconstructs the geographical relations of the major
political and religious centres of the core region of the Hittite state,
which thrived in Central Asia Minor from roughly the 17th to the
beginning of the 12th century BC. Despite century-long efforts to bring
order to the knowledge of geography of Hittite Central Anatolia, there
are still fundamental issues that await resolution. The investigation is
primarily philologically-oriented, in that it makes no pretense of
providing any exact identifications that would allow to pinpoint Hittite
cities and mountains on the map. Instead of offering yet another set of
precise locations, the study analyses the written evidence in order to
(re)create the region's relative geography, understood as a system of
geographical relations between the discussed places. The method of
inquiry employed in the study utilises all the available data concerning
the investigated toponyms and analyses them from a strictly geographical
perspective, which enables a better appreciation of the material.