Hittites Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
Anatolian ethnic group who built kingdoms at Kussara & Hattusa (c. 2000-700 BCE)
About Hittites
The earliest Anatolians known to form an organized state, the Hittites seemingly appeared out of thin air in the high plateau of northernCentral Anatolia, although they identified much with their predecessors, theHattis, who were of equally obscure origins. At their peak, the Hittites were a great power, with their area of control stretching well into modern-daySyriaandLebanon. The Hittites were comparable in might to theirAncient EgyptianandAssyrianneighbors, with whom they were always in an uneasy relationship and sometimes at war. An attempted Egyptian invasion in 1274 BC was stopped by the Hittites at the city ofKadesh, on the Orontes River in what is now Syria. In the aftermath, the opposing sides celebrated the Egyptian–Hittite peace treaty, the first of its kind in recorded history,
Hittites Travel Guide Sections
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