Editing Cimmerians (section)

=====Defeat by Esarhaddon=====
Around the same time, the rulers of the Neo-Hittite kingdom of [[Cybistra#Iron Age|Ḫubišna]], which occupied a strategic position containing many settlements and routes linking the [[Konya Plain]] with Cilicia, might have demanded help from the Cimmerians against possible Neo-Assyrian attempts to take control of their region following the death of [[Warpalawas II]] of [[Tuwana]], or the Cimmerians might have attempted to invade this region on their own.{{sfn|Adalı|2017|p=68}} The Neo-Assyrian Empire reacted to maintain its control of Cilicia by conducting a campaign in 679 BC during which Esarhaddon killed the Cimmerian king Teušpâ and annexed a part of the territory of the kingdom of [[Ḫilakku]] and of the kingdom of Kundi and Sissû in the region of Que.<ref>{{Unbulleted list citebundle|{{harvnb|Phillips|1972|p=131}}|{{harvnb|Diakonoff|1985|p=95}}|{{harvnb|Barnett|1982|p=358}}|{{harvnb|Hawkins|1982|p=427}}|{{harvnb|Grayson|1991b|p=127}}|{{harvnb|Grayson|1991c|p=145}}|{{harvnb|Sulimirski|Taylor|1991|p=559}}|{{harvnb|Tokhtas’ev|1991}}|{{harvnb|Ivantchik|1993a|pp=57–58}}|{{harvnb|Ivantchik|1993a|pp=60–61}}|{{harvnb|Harmatta|1996|p=181}}|{{harvnb|Bouzek|2001|p=38}}|{{harvnb|Parzinger|2004|p=19}}|{{harvnb|de Boer|2006|p=44}}|{{harvnb|Adalı|2017|p=63}}|{{harvnb|Adalı|2023|p=214}}}}</ref>

Despite this victory, and although Esarhaddon had managed to stop the advance of Cimmerians in the Neo-Assyrian province of Que so that this latter region remained under Neo-Assyrian control,{{sfn|Adalı|2017|p=68}} the military operations were not successful enough for the Assyrians to firmly occupy the areas around of Ḫubišna, nor were they able to secure the borders of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, leaving Que vulnerable to incursions from Tabal, Kuzzurak and Ḫilakku,{{sfn|Ivantchik|1993a|p=65}}{{sfn|Adalı|2023|p=213-214}} who were allied to the western Cimmerians who were establishing themselves in Anatolia at this time{{sfn|Ivantchik|1993a|p=123}} and might still have maintained connections with them even after Esarhaddon's victory at Ḫubišna.{{sfn|Adalı|2023|p=214}}