• Mursili III, also known as Urhi-Teshub, was a king of the Hittites who assumed the throne of the Hittite empire (New Kingdom) at Tarhuntassa upon his...
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  • queen Kali. Mursili II, (also spelled Mursilis II) was a king of the Hittite Empire (New kingdom) ca. 1321–1295 BC (short chronology). Mursili III, also known...
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    youngest of four children to the Hittite king Mursili II and queen Gassulawiya. According to Hattusili III himself, he was an ill and sickly child who was...
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  • Mursili II (also spelled Mursilis II) was a king of the Hittite Empire (New kingdom) c. 1330–1295 BC (middle chronology) or 1321–1295 BC (short chronology)...
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  • Mursili I (also known as Mursilis; sometimes transcribed as Murshili) was a king of the Hittites c. 1620-1590 BC, as per the middle chronology, the most...
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    The "Apology" of Ḫattušili III indicates that his nephew and predecessor Muršili III reigned for 7 years. A text of Muršili II records an omen of the sun...
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    two children. One was Urhi-Teshup, who became king as Mursili III until his uncle Hattusili III deposed him. Another was Kurunta who became the vassal...
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    his mother and cousins. Ḫattušili then explains that for these reasons Mursili, his grandson, will be the next king instead, and urges the army and public...
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    Šuppiluliuma II's enemy in Tarḫuntašša, if the Muršili in question could be equated with Muršili III (Urḫi-Teššub). Reasserting Hittite central control...
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  • sets of kings on both sides, discerns three Tudḫaliyas as predecessors of Muršili II on his "cruciform seal," and argues that the Tudḫaliyas who engaged...
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  • However she was reinstated during the reign of the following king, Mursili III. She came from a Hurrian background. Petropoulos, Elias K. (2021-10-22)...
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  • Asia minor – Mursili II, Ruler (c.1321–1295 BC, short chronology) Muwatalli II, Ruler (c.1295–1272 BC, short chronology) Mursili III a.k.a. Urhi-Teshub...
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    Hittite empire. Mursili III was a king of the Hittites for about seven years in 1282–1275 BC who was then overthrown by his uncle Hattusili III, who assumed...
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    king, Mursili III, fled to Egypt, the land of his country's enemy, after the failure of his plots to oust his uncle from the throne. Ḫattušili III responded...
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    (2020): "...Recently, Forlanini proposed that the text’s author was not Muršili I but rather Ḫattušili I, who tells about the times of his predecessor...
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  • Arnuwanda III was the penultimate king of the Hittite empire (New Kingdom) c. 1215–1210 BC (middle chronology) or c. 1209–1207 BC (short chronology)....
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  • lost all of its conquests, made in the former era under Hattusili I and Mursili I – to Arzawa in the West, Mitanni in the East, the Kaskians in the North...
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  • sets of kings on both sides, discerns three Tudḫaliyas as ancestors of Muršili II on his “cruciform seal,” and argues that the Tudḫaliyas who engaged...
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    throne and ruled as king for seven years as Mursili III before being ousted by his uncle, Hattusili III after a brief civil war. In response to increasing...
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  • Kupanta-Kurunta apparently supported Hattusili III over Hattusili's nephew Urhi-Tessup, "Mursili III". After Hattusili attained the kingdom, Kupanta-Kurunta...
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  • vassal state called Ḫanigalbat. During the reign of the Hittite king Mursili III (better known as Urḫi-Tešub), Ḫanigalbat was conquered by the Assyria...
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  • Tudḫaliya III Tudḫaliya the Younger Šuppiluliuma I Arnuwanda II Muršili II Muwatalli II Muršili III Ḫattušili III Tudḫaliya IV Arnuwanda III Šuppiluliuma...
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  • king Muršili II and his nephew Talmi-Šarruma, the king of Aleppo. Following references to the Hittite kings Ḫattušili I defeating, and Muršili I and...
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    Tudḫaliya III Tudḫaliya the Younger Šuppiluliuma I Arnuwanda II Muršili II Muwatalli II Muršili III Ḫattušili III Tudḫaliya IV Arnuwanda III Šuppiluliuma...
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  • and with the accession of Shattuara I in Hanigalbat and Urhi Teššup as Mursili III of the Hittites and a waning of Hittite engagement in international affairs...
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    evil by his own son, Muršili II. Šuppiluliuma's origins are unclear. A statement in the genealogy of his grandson Ḫattušili III was long taken to indicate...
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  • Tudḫaliya III Tudḫaliya the Younger Šuppiluliuma I Arnuwanda II Muršili II Muwatalli II Muršili III Ḫattušili III Tudḫaliya IV Arnuwanda III Šuppiluliuma...
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  • territory. Muwatalli II's son Mursili III later moved the capital back to Hattusa. After Hattusili III deposed Mursili, the new king appointed Muwatalli's...
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    Hantili was the royal cup-bearer to Mursili I, king of the Hittites. Hantili was married to Ḫarapšili, Mursili's sister. Around the year 1590 B.C., Hantili...
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  • Tudḫaliya III ), in the mid-14th century BC, the son of Tudḫaliya III, he probably never reigned. Tudḫaliya IV (very rarely renumbered as Tudḫaliya III ), ruled...
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