Hittites
The Hittites wur an auncient Anatolian fowk who established an empire at Hattusa in north-central Anatolie aroond 1600 BC. This empire reached its hicht during the mid-14t century BC unner Suppiluliuma I, when it encompassed an aurie that includit maist o Asie Minor as well as pairts o the northern Levant an Upper Mesopotamie. Efter c. 1180 BC, the empire came tae an end during the Bronze Age collapse, splinterin intae several independent "Neo-Hittite" ceety-states, some o which survived till the 8t century BC.
Hittite Empire | |
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c. 1600 BC–c. 1178 BC | |
![]() The Hittite Empire, ca. 1400 BC (shown in Blue). | |
Caipital | Hattusa |
Common leids | Nesite, Luwian, mony ithers |
Govrenment | Absolute monarchy |
Leet o Hittite keengs | |
Historical era | Bronze Age |
• Established | c. 1600 BC |
• Disestablished | c. 1178 BC |
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