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Lydia
Lydia ancient country, W Asia Minor, N of Caria and S of Mysia (now NW Turkey). The tyrant Gyges was the founder of the Mermnadae dynasty, which lasted from c.700 BC to 550 BC The little kingdom grew to an empire in the chaos that had been left after the fall of the Neo-Hittite kingdom. Lydia was p... Read more
Hittites
Hittites , ancient people of Asia Minor and Syria, who flourished from 1600 to 1200 BC The Hittites, a people of Indo-European connection, were supposed to have entered Cappadocia c.1800 BC To the southwest, in the Taurus and Cilicia, were the Luites, relatives of the Hittites; to the southeast, in ... Read more
Babylonia
Babylonia , ancient empire of Mesopotamia. The name is sometimes given to the whole civilization of S Mesopotamia, including the states established by the city rulers of Lagash, Akkad (or Agade), Uruk, and Ur in the 3d millennium BC Historically it is limited to the first dynasty of Babylon establis... Read more
John Garstang
John Garstang 1876-1956, English archaeologist. He served as W. M. Flinders Petrie 's field assistant in Egypt in 1899 and was professor of archaeology at the Univ. of Liverpool from 1907 to 1941, when he became professor emeritus. He conducted archaeological excavations at Jericho in Palestine an... Read more
Asia Minor
Asia Minor great peninsula, c.250,000 sq mi (647,500 sq km), extreme W Asia, generally coterminous with Asian Turkey, also called Anatolia. It is washed by the Black Sea in the north, the Mediterranean Sea in the south, and the Aegean Sea in the west. The Black and Aegean seas are linked by the Sea... Read more
Hama
Hama or Hamah , city (1995 est. pop. 280,000), capital of Hama governorate, W central Syria, on the Orontes River. It is the market center for an irrigated farm region where cotton, wheat, barley, millet, and corn are grown. Manufactures include cotton and woolen textiles, silk, carpets, and dai... Read more
Central Powers
Central Powers in World War I , the coalition of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire. ... Read more
Palatine
Palatine hill: see Rome before Augustus and Roman Empire under Rome . ... Read more
Anatolian languages
Anatolian languages , subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see The Indo-European Family of Languages , table); the term "Anatolian languages" is also used to refer to all languages, Indo-European and non-Indo-European, that were spoken in Anatolia in ancient times. The progress m... Read more
empire of Nicaea
empire of Nicaea 1204-61. In 1204 the armies of the Fourth Crusade set up the Latin Empire of Constantinople, but the Crusaders' influence did not extend over the entire Byzantine Empire. Several Greek successor states, chief among them the empire of Nicaea, sprang up (see also Epirus, despotate o... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Hittite Empire"

Hittites
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...by the Syrians. The Hittites tried to invade Babylonia...Egypt and Mitanni. The Hittite Empire that followed the Old...Comparative Grammar of Hittite (2d ed. 1951); J. Garstang, The Hittite Empire (1929, repr. 1976); O. R. Gurney, The Hittites (rev. ed. 1961...
Hittite art and architecture
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Hittite art and architecture...created by the ancient Hittites Background The Hittite invaders of central...The art of the Hittite Empire merged stylistically...of the Hittite Empire Hittite art drew upon far earlier...7th millennium BC The Hittites quickly ...
Anatolian languages
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Cuneiform Hittite, Hieroglyphic Hittite, Luwian (also called Luvian...Indo-European family is Hittite, the tongue of the Hittites , who entered and conquered...surviving written records of Hittite, dated at about the 15th...After the fall of the Hittite Empire (c.1200 BC) the ...
Ramses II
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Palestine and Syria. Hittite Campaigns The outstanding...protracted struggle with the Hittites. An inscription of...major attack on the Hittite Empire from his base in northern...indefinitely against Hittite pressure territories...between Egypt and the Hittites. After the ...
Bogazköy
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa ...on the site of the probable hittite capital in central anatolia...a site first inhabited by Hittites in the third millennium b...trading town and became the Hittite capital in the second millennium...By 1200 b.c.e., the Hittite Empire was destroyed by migrating...
Iron Age
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...see forging ) was made by the Chalybes of the Hittite empire. It is possible that the Hittite kings kept ironworking techniques secret and...of iron weapons. After the downfall of the Hittite empire in 1200 BC, the great waves of migrants...
Boğazköy
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...called) was the chief center of the Hittite empire (1400-1200 BC), which was...there (1906-7) the principal Hittite inscriptions on 10,000 tablets...greatly added to the knowledge of Hittite civilization. Among the impressive...
Hugo Winckler
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...7 he discovered cuneiform tablets in Hittite (or Kanesian), a principal source for knowledge of the Hittites . The tablets represent the official archives of Hattusas, the capital of the Hittite empire, and detail foreign relations with the...
Steel
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science ...which gave it a certain toughness. The Hittites, an ancient tribe living in Asia Minor...The Chalybes, a subject tribe of the Hittites, invented a cementation process about...much harder iron. With the fall of the Hittite empire, the various tribes scattered, carrying...
John Garstang
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...and, after 1947, at Ankara. Among his writings are Meroë, the City of the Ethiopians (1911), The Hittite Empire (1929), Foundations of Bible History: Joshua, Judges (1931), and Prehistoric Mersin (1950).

Dictionary entries related to "Hittite Empire"

Hittite
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Hittite A member of an ancient people...x2013;1200 BC. The Hittite empire reached its zenith under...Syria and Palestine the Hittites clashed with the troops...subsequent decline and demise of Hittite power by 700 BC resulted...
Hittites
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible Hittites A major power in the 14th...the Assyrian and Babylonian empires. There are references to Hittites in the OT (e.g. Gen. 23: 3) and to the kings of the Hittites in 1 Kgs. 10: 29, 2 Kgs...north Syria. King Solomon had Hittite wives (1 Kgs. 11: 1) and...
Anti-Semitism: Overview
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...The Jews were therefore not like the Hittites, a powerful enemy with whom the Egyptians...merit the right to survive. The Roman Empire The basic "Jew hatred" as defined by...and more powerful throughout the Roman Empire, Tacitus considered the Jews as subversive...
Asia Minor
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...civilization established there was that of the Hittites in the 2nd millenium BC. The Greeks colonized...of Asia and then part of the Byzantine empire. Conquered by the Turks, it became part of the Ottoman empire from the end of the 13th century until...
iron
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...bc , but iron-working began with the Hittites in Anatolia in c. 1400 bc. Its arrival...the Roman period, but outside the Roman Empire it continued to the 4th–6th...x2013;98), Chancellor of the German Empire (1871–90). In recent times...
Cilicia
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...Tarsus as its main city. It came under the control of the HITTITES , the ASSYRIANS , the ACHAEMENIDS , and ALEXANDER THE GREAT...BC, and by the end of the century it was part of the ROMAN EMPIRE . It was occupied by migrating Armenians in 1080. In 1375...
Babylonia
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...extended over Assyria and part of Syria. After c. 1530 BC first the Hittites then other invaders, the Kassites, dominated the land, and it became part of the Assyrian empire. With the latter's decline Babylonia again became prominent under...
Iron Age
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...use of iron. This was first mastered on a large scale by the HITTITES in Anatolia between 1500 and 1200 BC, and spread to the Aegean...when most of the Celts came under the aegis of the Roman empire. A distinct artistic style developed, characterized by such...

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Hittite Empire conquers Pittsburgh. (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
Magazine article from: Dance Magazine; 3/1/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...men's issues are the realm of Hittite Empire, a predominantly male, multidisciplinary...currently showcases black artists, the Empire will appear in The Undersiege Stories...1987 to fill a cultural void, the Empire is a ten-man company (which can...
Onomasticon of the Hittite Pantheon: Parts I and II
Magazine article from: Journal of Biblical Literature; 10/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...Third, in the course of Hittite expansion throughout much...considerable cultic attention at the Hittite capital of Bogazkoy/ Hattuga...Recherches sur les norms des dieux hittites (Paris, 1947). Each of...more than sixty volumes of Hittite texts published since the...across the entire ...
Recent Developments in Hittite Archaeology and History: Papers in Memory of Hans G. Guterbock.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 10/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...greater understanding of the Hittite culture and its history...in the final stage of the Hittite Empire, this would change the historical...philological documentation of three Hittite provincial centers discovered...according to Hoffner the Hittites blinded some prisoners to...
Hittite Diplomatic Texts
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 10/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; GARY BECKMAN, Hittite Diplomatic Texts (SBLWAW...disposal a wide range of the Hittites' diplomatic correspondence...originally composed in Hittite or Akkadian, involves...ideological glue which held the Hittite empire together" (p. 3...
Late Hittite Emar: The Chronology, Synchronisms, and Socio-Political Aspects of a Late Bronze Age Fortress Town.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 10/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...Syria had been taken over by the Hittite empire and was ruled from Carchemish...illuminate the town's place under Hittite rule. The effort is worthwhile...current site was only created after Hittite conquest. For example, he wonders...
Hittite Prayers.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...anthropologiques. La priere hittite est dictee par les circonstances...remontant a l'ancien royaume hittite, elles sont connues par des...eventuellement, moyen-hittites. A cote de la celebre priere...denommee par l'auteur "Ancien Empire hittite" (pp. 29-46), soit...
Hittites used germ warfare 3,500 years ago.
News Wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.; 12/8/2007; 561 words ; Hittites used germ warfare 3,500...an ancient Middle-Eastern empire which had mastered the art...researchers in Europe, the Hittites of Anatolia, whose empire...through ancient accounts of Hittite conquests before coming to...conclusion. In 1325 BC, when the Hittites sacked the ...
Hittite Prayers
Magazine article from: Journal of Biblical Literature; 4/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...throughout the work Singer lets the Hittite prayers stand on their own...literature. The prayers in the Hittite corpus are mostly of high...a chapter entitled "Early Empire Prayers." After the fourteenth century, as the Hittites expanded their political boundaries...areas north and west of the ...
Hittite Studies in Honor of Harry A. Hoffner Jr. on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...Suppiluliuma I as the Early Empire period. He emphasizes Tudhaliya...father of the old king," all Hittite rulers; and that there is...texts, finding that "the Hittite version seldom employs the...discussion of the fact that the Hittite texts seem to be at least...the Myceneans, and the ...
Rich rewards in the land of the Hittites
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 4/1/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...Hatay, named by Attaturk after the Hittites, fell into the hands of the French...when it was capital of the Seleucid Empire, which included Turkey and Iran. It was later annexed by the Roman Empire and became the capital of the Roman...