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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"

Hittite art and architecture
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...activity lasted from 1450 to 1200 BC The art of the Hittite Empire merged stylistically with Syrian art gradually...Archibald Henry Sayre of Oxford, England. Art of the Hittite Empire Hittite art drew upon far earlier sources developed in Sumer...
Hittites
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...halted by Egypt and Mitanni. The Hittite Empire that followed the Old Kingdom...Hattusilish III (fl. 1300 BC). The Hittite Empire was a loose confederation that...1951); J. Garstang, The Hittite Empire (1929, repr. 1976); O. R...
Anatolian languages
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Egypt). After the fall of the Hittite Empire (c.1200 BC) the use of cuneiform...BC Cuneiform and Hieroglyphic Hittite are separate but closely related...Anatolia during the period of the Hittite Empire, Luwian was written in cuneiform...
Ramses II
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...events in Palestine and Syria. Hittite Campaigns The outstanding feature...launched a major attack on the Hittite Empire from his base in northern Palestine...and the next year he broke the Hittite defenses and invaded Syria. Although...
Iron Age
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...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 spreading...
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...
Bogazköy
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa ...major trading town and became the Hittite capital in the second millennium...writing have been excavated. The Hittite kingdom was extended into Syria...e. By 1200 b.c.e., the Hittite Empire was destroyed by migrating tribes...
Hugo Winckler
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...ouml;y in 1906-7 he discovered cuneiform tablets in Hittite (or Kanesian), a principal source for knowledge of...the official archives of Hattusas, the capital of the Hittite empire, and detail foreign relations with the Egyptians...
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).
Steel
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science ...in contact with charcoal. The carbon absorbed from the charcoal produced a much harder iron. With the fall of the Hittite empire, the various tribes scattered, carrying the knowledge of smelting and the cementation process with them to Syria...

Dictionary entries related to "Hittite Empire"

Hittite
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Hittite A member of an ancient people of Asia...Anatolia c. 1800–1200 BC. The Hittite empire reached its zenith under the totalitarian...The subsequent decline and demise of Hittite power by 700 BC resulted from internal...

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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...
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 ; ...a greater understanding of the Hittite culture and its history. However...Tarhuntassa in the final stage of the Hittite Empire, this would change the historical...philological documentation of three Hittite provincial centers discovered during...
Onomasticon of the Hittite Pantheon: Parts I and II
Magazine article from: Journal of Biblical Literature; 10/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...Mesopotamian compositions from Hittite sources, since the author decided...or Akkadian texts (except for Hittite treaties composed in this latter...religious practice across the entire Hittite empire from the Onomasticon alone. One...
Hittite Diplomatic Texts
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 10/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...chronological chart, and a synoptic table of the Hittite treaties-an especially supportive feature...the "ideological glue which held the Hittite empire together" (p. 3). Part 2 contains seventeen Hittite epistles touching on some of the different...
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 ; Late Hittite Emar: The Chronology, Synchronisms...northern Syria had been taken over by the Hittite empire and was ruled from Carchemish. Adamthwaite...that illuminate the town's place under Hittite rule. The effort is worthwhile but uneven...
Hittite Prayers.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...et anthropologiques. La priere hittite est dictee par les circonstances...remontant a l'ancien royaume hittite, elles sont connues par des copies...denommee par l'auteur "Ancien Empire hittite" (pp. 29-46), soit le debut...
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 ; ...Guterbock, of the Chicago Hittite Dictionary. It includes...Middle, and Neo-Hittite linguistic and paleographic...Suppiluliuma I as the Early Empire period. He emphasizes...this titulary is a late Empire insertion; his acceptance...the old king," all Hittite rulers; and that there...
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...areas north and west of the Hittite homeland. Prayers in this...
The Empire Strikes Back
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 3/10/1995; ; 567 words ; WITH HIS performance art company the Hittite Empire, Keith Antar Mason has been a voice for African American...dialogue where we can challenge the powers that be." THE HITTITE EMPIRE -- Friday and Saturday at 8, Sunday at 4 at Dance...
Across the Anatolian Plateau: Readings in the Archaeology of Ancient Turkey.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...political-military history of the Hittite kingdom and empire by Gregory McMahon, Hittite...hinterland perspective") to the Hittite Empire, as it looks at ceramic assemblages...original issue that dealt with Hittite Empire matters have not been included...