may indicate that at some period they also held ground north-west of the river in Paphlagonia. Their eastern frontier probably lay east of modern Yozgat, though how far is unclear.

Their principal settlement was Tavium, and the sources also name Posdala among their towns. Tavium lay east of the Halys and had been a place of worship since the Hittite period, when it was known as Tawinija. The sanctuary