Hittite
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a member of an ancient people who established a powerful empire in Asia Minor and Syria, dominant from about 1900 to 1200 b.c.
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an extinct language of the Anatolian branch of Indo-European, preserved in cuneiform inscriptions of the second millennium b.c.
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a member of an ancient people of Anatolia, who built a great empire in N Syria and Asia Minor in the second millennium bc
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the extinct language of this people, deciphered from cuneiform inscriptions found at Boǧazköy and elsewhere. It is clearly related to the Indo-European family of languages, although the precise relationship is disputed
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Etymology
Origin of Hittite
1600–10; < Hebrew ḥitt ( īm ) Hittite (compare Hittite Khatti ) + -ite 1
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Archaeological digs for Hittite antiquities aimed to provide the new republic with a past rooted even more deeply than Greece and Italy.
From New York Times • May 25, 2023
A smaller kingdom, for example, might find it advantageous to seek an alliance with a large regional power like Assyria, Babylonia, or the Hittite Empire.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
However, little more than fifty years later, the once-powerful Hittite Empire collapsed, never to reappear.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
The Hittite Empire expanded rapidly based on a flourishing bronze-age economy, expanding from Anatolia to conquer territory in Mesopotamia, Syria, and Canaan, ultimately clashing with the New Kingdom of Egypt.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
Amenophis III. and his son, Amenophis IV., had often to oppose the Hittite king, who either attacked Northern Syria, or stirred up strife among the Egyptian vassals in Canaan.
From The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia by Pinches, Theophilus Goldridge
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