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History of the Hittites - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Almost nothing is known about the History of the Hittites in this period. The last monarch of the Old kingdom, Telepinu, reigned until about 1500 BC.
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During her lifetime, the Hittite state cult was reorganized according to the Hurrian rite, and this is why the gods and godesses in the Yazilikaya sculptures bear Hurrian names in hieroglphic script.
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The Hittites were an ancient Anatolian people who spoke a language of the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family, and established a kingdom centered at Hattusa (Hittite URUḪattuša) in north-central Anatolia ca. the 18th century BC. The Hittite empire reached its height...
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The Old Hittite city comprised the same area as that of its Hattian predecessor; on the high ridge of Buyukkale was the residence of the Great King, and the city lay on the slope below to the northwest, reaching to the valley below and protected to the west by a massive fortification wall.
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From the founder of the Old Kingdom, the firmly historical Hattusilis I (Labarnas II), came an annalistic autobiography (excavated in 1957) and a “farewell address,” or political testament, in Hittite as well as... The two main periods of Hittite history are customarily referred to as the Old Kingdom (c.
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on Anatolian art and architecture, Hittite period: The Hittite old kingdom, with its capital city, Hattusa (modern Bogazköy), in the Halys bend, was one of several states into which Anatolia was divided during the second quarter of the 2nd millennium BC. Its finest monuments date...
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on Anatolia, The Old Hittite Kingdom: The two main periods of Hittite history are customarily referred to as the Old Kingdom (c. 1700c. 1500 BC) and the New Kingdom, or Empire (c. 1400c. 1180). Ancient Anatolia > The rise and fall of the Hittites > The Old Hittite Kingdom...
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Article abstract: Hattusilis I established the Old Hittite Kingdom in Central Anatolia (now Turkey) and laid the foundations for the development of the Hittite Empire of the Late Bronze Age.
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