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 | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| The day pairt o |  Turkey Sirie Lebanon |