- Arslantepe, also
known as
Melid, was an
ancient city on the
Tohma River, a
tributary of the
upper Euphrates rising in the
Taurus Mountains. It has been...
- The city has been a
human settlement for
thousands of years. In Hittite,
melid or
milit means "honey",
offering a
possible etymology for the name, which...
- bank of the
Upper Euphrates within the
eastern loop of the
river between Melid and Carchemish. ****yrian
sources refer to both the land and its capital...
- the Uruk
period (c. 3300 BCE,
there existed a
large palace complex at
Melid.
Melid and the
region of
Malatya at large, were,
during the
Middle Bronze Age...
- Neo-Hittite king of the
polity called Kammanu,
centered at the city of
Melid (Malatya),
during the Iron Age,
around the 11th
century BCE. Halpasulupi...
- the
Hittite imperial dynasty and the "Great Kings" and "Country-lords" of
Melid and
Karkamish of the
Early Iron Age,
proving an
uninterrupted continuity...
- was also the
language spoken in the Neo-Hittite
states of Syria, such as
Melid and Carchemish, as well as in the
central Anatolian kingdom of
Tabal that...
-
Institute has
argued that
Luwian was
spoken from the
eastern Aegean coast to
Melid and as far
north as
Alaca Hoyuk during the
Hittite Kingdom.
After the collapse...
-
Elbistan shares some
history with
Arslantepe (
Melid). It is
believed that
Elbistan came
under the
control of
Melid sometime around the 12th
century BC. The...
- from
Melid.[citation needed] The next
known Great King of
Carchemish was Ir-Teshub. Kuzi-Teshub is not
proved to have
ruled directly as King of
Melid. On...
