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Tradition collection 156 records

Anatolia and the ancient Balkans

Hittite, Phrygian, Etruscan, Thracian and Illyrian religion.

  • Extent Anatolia, the Aegean and the Balkans, roughly 1700 BCE to 300 CE.
  • Holds 80 gods · 63 places · 6 traditions · 4 figures
Meet the gods

Before you count

Etruscan and Illyrian religion are known mainly through material culture and Roman description.

What else it is missing

Gods · 80

The gods, and the company they keep

The most widely linked across Wikipedia, this collection’s own first. A picture of a god is a work of art, never a likeness.

All 80 gods

Not its own picture Fufluns — lead image of the Spanish Wikipedia article

More of its best-linked gods

In company

Pantheons, read from the members’ own records — never from a fixed roster.

Etruscan mythology 19 members on record Explore the pantheon

Not their own pictures Selvans — lead image of the English Wikipedia article Usil — lead image of the English Wikipedia article

Places · 63

Archaeological sites and places

60 of the 63 are recorded as archaeological sites — a culture’s cities and monuments, not evidence of worship there. The most widely linked first.

All 63 places

63 places 63 with a point on the map 8 with a date 60 archaeological sites

See them on the atlas

The oldest on record

The earliest recorded starts among its best-known places, by 1000 CE, in date order. Each date is the place’s own — a city’s founding, a building’s — not the start of this tradition there.

  1. 7000 BCE Knossos Archaeological site
  2. 30th century BCE Mycenae Archaeological site
  3. c. 30th century BCE Phaistos Archaeological site
  4. 17th century BCE Anemospilia
  5. 13th century BCE Yazılıkaya Archaeological site
  6. 13th century BCE Karabel relief Archaeological site
  7. 480 BCE Tomb of the Leopards Archaeological site

Traditions · 6

Many paths, shared histories

The traditions, schools and movements this collection holds — each with its own page.

Figures · 4

Who to meet first

The most widely linked across Wikipedia, this collection’s own first.

All 4 figures

More of its best-linked figures

Also here · 1

Also in this collection

Kinds it holds only one or two of, each with its own page.

What this collection holds

Counted, not scored. Each count opens its list.

Every collection

A record can be more than one kind — a monastery is a place and an institution — so these counts add up to more than its 156 records. The sections above count the same way, and draw each record once, under the kind its own page is filed under.

Statements
480
With references
16
Undated
145
Accounts
0
Reviewed here
0
What it is missing, and how it was assembled

What this collection is missing

Written by an editor, not computed. A count of records cannot say any of this, and a collection read without it is a collection read wrongly.

  • Etruscan and Illyrian religion are known mainly through material culture and Roman description.
  • Hittite archives are rich and localised; what survives is what Hattusa kept.
  • Names are transliterated from several scripts with no agreed convention.

Counted across the collections

Festivals, practices and events follow how densely Wikidata records them, not how much a tradition keeps: 77% of the 845 held across the collections are Christian, and this collection holds none.

What the counts mean

Statements
Relationships and facts recorded on these records.
With references
Statements that cite a source outside Wikimedia.
Undated
Records with no date on any of the three clocks.
Accounts
Named versions of a story, kept apart.
Reviewed here
Read by a person and signed with a date.

How it was assembled

Discovered from Wikidata by class and by religion, ranked by incoming links, then filtered against each item’s own claims. Relationships are imported statements unless a row says otherwise; none of them has been read here.

“Reviewed” means a person read it and signed it with a date — which is why it is zero. Nothing here measures how good the material is.

Records here have an article in 16 languages between them. The interface is English only for now. Published 2026-09-25.

How 2 of these records were placed here through another record

Most records are in Anatolia and the ancient Balkans by their own statements. These are here because of another record they are linked to — worked out when the data was built, not stated on the record itself. Each one’s own page says the same.

Gods, through a parent or a consort · 1

  • Tarhun — its consort is Sun goddess of Arinna

Pantheons, through their own published gods · 1

Olaf Tausch · CC BY 3.0

Keep going

Walk Anatolia and the ancient Balkans another way.

A family tree as the accounts give it, every mapped place on the atlas, and the dates on the timeline — each on its own clock.

Kubaba’s family tree On the atlas The timeline, from Hattusili III