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    Hattusa, also Hattuşa, Ḫattuša, Hattusas, or Hattusha, was the capital of the Hittite Empire in the late Bronze Age during two distinct periods. Its ruins...
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    The Hattusa Green Stone is a roughly cubic block of nephrite standing in the remains of the Great Temple at Hattusa, capital of the Hittites in the late...
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    the Kanesh or Nesha kingdom (c. 1750–1650 BC), and an empire centered on Hattusa (around 1650 BC). Known in modern times as the Hittite Empire, it reached...
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    The Sphinx Gate of Hattusa, the capital of the Hittites...
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    Hittites, a people of Bronze Age Anatolia who created an empire centred on Hattusa, as well as parts of the northern Levant and Upper Mesopotamia. The language...
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  • Isuwa to the east, as well as other enemies of the Hittites, and burn Hattusa, the Hittite capital, to the ground. They probably also burned the Hittites'...
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    Hattusa; the other is on the northern corner of the East Pond (Pond 1), in what is known as Chamber 2. This served as a water reservoir for Hattusa....
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    Phrygian ruins. Yazılıkaya (Turkish: Inscribed rock) was a sanctuary of Hattusa, the capital city of the Hittite Empire, today in the Çorum Province, Turkey...
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  • earlier and during the Trojan War (see 1190s BC). c. 1180 BC—Invaders raze Hattusa, causing the collapse of the Hittite Empire. "1177 B.C.: When Civilization...
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    religion are lacking among the tablets recovered at the Hittite capital Hattusa and other Hittite sites. Thus, "there are no canonical scriptures, no theological...
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  • clay tablet (indexed KBo 71.145) from the Bogazköy Archive excavated at Hattusa, the Hittite capital. The tablet, written in Hittite cuneiform of the 13th...
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    Ancient Hittite relief carving from Yazılıkaya, a sanctuary at Hattusa, depicting twelve gods of the underworld,[failed verification] whom the Hittites...
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  • their rounded, conical shape. c. 1600 BC—Hittites establish capital at Hattusa (near modern Boğazkale, Turkey). 1602 BC—Death of Shem, son of Noah, according...
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  • Hatti (/ˈhæti/; Assyrian URUHa-at-ti) in Bronze Age Anatolia: the area of Hattusa, roughly delimited by the Halys bend the Hattians of the 3rd and 2nd millennia...
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    texts found on the site of the capital of the Hittite state, the city of Hattusas (now Bogazkoy in Turkey). They are the oldest extant documents of the state...
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    peripheral to their core lands in Mesopotamia, the Hittites were centered at Hattusa (modern Boğazkale) in north-central Anatolia by the 17th century BCE. They...
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    "travel to Canaan" of an Assyrian official. Four references are known from Hattusa: An evocation to the Cedar Gods: Includes reference to Canaan alongside...
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    Hattusili III (Hittite: "from Hattusa") was king of the Hittite empire (New Kingdom) c. 1275–1245 BC (middle chronology) or 1267–1237 BC (short chronology...
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    perhaps compiled by Hattusili I, one of the earliest Hittite kings of Hattusa. The Anitta text indicates that Anitta's father conquered Neša (Kanesh...
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    consists of 4 quarters: Yekbas, Çarşı, Hattusas and Hisar. Boğazkale is the site of the ancient Hittite city Hattusa and its sanctuary Yazılıkaya. Because...
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    Pylos and Gaza was violently destroyed, and many were abandoned, including Hattusa, Mycenae, and Ugarit, with Robert Drews claiming that, "Within a period...
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    have been preserved on a number of Hittite cuneiform tablets found at Hattusa (CTH 291-292, listing 200 laws). Copies have been found written in Old...
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    century BC) Proto-Hittite (c. 2100 BC) Kanišite Hittite (c. 1935–1710 BC) Ḫattuša Hittite (c. 1650–1180 BC) In addition, the Kalašma language is believed...
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    of Ebla, Mari, Alalakh, Aleppo and Kultepe, Late Bronze Age palaces at Hattusa, Ugarit, Ashur and Nuzi, Iron Age palaces and temples at Assyrian (Kalhu/Nimrud...
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    cuneiform tablets found at Çorum-Boğazköy, the former Hittite capital Hattusa. The contest is a ritual of the Hattian spring festival of Puruli. The...
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  • den Bogazköy-Texten (abbreviated StBoT; lit. Studies in the Bogazköy (Hattusa) Texts) edited by the German Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur...
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  • Hattush may refer to: Hattush or Hattusa, the ancient Hittite capital (in Turkey) Hattush, mentioned in Ezra 8 in the Hebrew Bible, one of the exiles...
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    compiled from fragmentary records, supplemented by the recent find in Hattusa of a cache of more than 3,500 seal impressions giving names and titles...
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  • the following places: Boğazkale, a town and district in Çorum Province Hattusa, the ancient Hittite site located near Boğazkale Boğazköy, Amasya Boğazköy...
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    Kaskas were plundering the Hatti heartland, including the historic capital Hattusa, during the 14th century BC under kings Tudhaliya I-III and Suppiluliuma...
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