Suppiluliumas I

British

/ ˌsʌpɪlʌlɪˈuːməs /

noun

king of the Hittites (?1375–?1335 _bc ); founder of the Hittite empire

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By the reign of Suppiluliumas I in the mid-fourteenth century BCE, it had become arguably the most powerful empire in the Near East and a major rival of New Kingdom Egypt.

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