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Hittite
Hittite Hit"tite, n. [From Heb. Khitt[=i]m Hittites.] A member of an ancient people (or perhaps group of peoples) whose settlements extended from Armenia westward into Asia Minor and southward into Palestine. They are known to have been met along the Orontes as early as 1500 b. c., and were often at war with the Egyptians and Assyrians. Especially in the north they developed a considerable civilization, of which numerous monuments and inscriptions are extant. Authorities are not agreed as to their race. While several attempts have been made to decipher the Hittite characters, little progress has yet been made.

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- question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. The Hittites (/ˈhɪtaɪts/) were an Anatolian Indo-European people who formed one of the...
- language Hittite grammar Hittite phonology Hittite cuneiform Hittite inscriptions Hittite laws Hittite religion Hittite music Hittite art Hittite cuisine...
- see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. Hittite (natively: 𒌷𒉌𒅆𒇷, romanized: nešili, lit. 'the language of Neša', or...
- In Indo-European linguistics, the term Indo-Hittite (also Indo-Anatolian) means Edgar Howard Sturtevant's 1926 hypothesis that the Anatolian languages...
- Uriah the Hittite (Hebrew: אוּרִיָּה הַחִתִּי‎ ʾŪrīyyā haḤīttī) is a minor figure in the Hebrew Bible, mentioned in the Books of Samuel, an elite soldier...
- Hittite mythology and Hittite religion were the religious beliefs and practices of the Hittites, who created an empire centered in what is now Turkey...
- The Hittite Plague or Hand of Nergal was an epidemic, possibly of tularemia, which occurred in the mid-to-late 14th century BC. The Hittite Empire stretched...
- The states called Neo-Hittite, Syro-Hittite (in older literature), or Luwian-Aramean (in modern scholarly works) were Luwian and Aramean regional polities...
- restore possession of previously held territories lost to the Nubians and Hittites and to secure Egypt's borders. He was also responsible for suppressing...
- The dating and sequence of Hittite kings is compiled by scholars from fragmentary records, supplemented by the finds in Ḫattuša and other administrative...