Hittite sources claim Naram-Sin of Akkad even ventured into Anatolia, battling the Hittite and Hurrian kings Pamba of Hatti, Zipani of Kanesh, and 15 others.

It has been suggested by Hittite sources, specifically the Manapa-Tarhunta letter, that there is historical basis for the archetype of King Priam.

A number of west Semitic ( Ras Shamra ) and Hittite sources appear to corroborate the theory of a genetic relationship between the two myths.

The earliest forms of the word Hayastan, an ethonym the Armenians ( Hayer ) use to designate their country, come from Hittite sources of the Late Bronze Age, such as the kingdom of Hayasa-Azzi.

The earliest sources of Hittite are the 19th century BC Kültepe texts, the Assyrian records of the kârum kaneš, or " port of Kanesh ," an Assyrian enclave of merchants within the city of kaneš ( Kültepe ).

The account is mainly based on Assyrian, Hittite and Egyptian sources, as well as inscriptions from nearby places in Syria.

According to Hittite sources, Piyashshili and Shattiwaza crossed the Euphrates at Carchemish, then marched against Irridu in Hurrian territory.

Long used as a Hittite port which appears in Hittite sources as " Sinuwa " ( J. Garstang, The Hittite Empire, p. 74 ), the city proper was re-founded as a Greek colony from the city of Miletus in the 7th century BC ( Xenophon, Anabasis 6. 1. 15 ; Diodorus Siculus 14. 31. 2 ; Strabo 12. 545 ).

Asherah (; Ugaritic:: ' ṯrt ; ), in Semitic mythology, is a Semitic mother goddess, who appears in a number of ancient sources including Akkadian writings by the name of Ashratum / Ashratu and in Hittite as Asherdu ( s ) or Ashertu ( s ) or Aserdu ( s ) or Asertu ( s ).

According to Hittite sources, the capital of the Kingdom of Arzawa was Apasa ( or Abasa ), corresponding with later Greek Ephesus.

Upon a reading of the Iliad, where the residents of the Peloponnesus and adjacent islands are often called Achaeans, and taking into account mention of the Ahhiyawa in Hittite sources from the Late Bronze Age, the theory suggests itself that the Mycenaeans could possibly even be Achaeans.

Connection of the mention of a King of the Ahhiyawa in Hittite sources with the King of the Achaeans, the Mycenaean king Agamemnon of the Iliad, rests on the insecure foundations of an Ahhiyawa / Achaean identity ; the very location of the Ahhiyawa kingdom remains a matter for debate ; it has been suggested it may have been in Asia Minor, Rhodes or Peloponesus.

This south-central Anatolian region was referred to as the Lower Land in Hittite sources and its population was mainly Luwian speakers.

According to Hittite sources, Piyashshili and Shattiwazza crossed the Euphrates at Carchemish, then marched against Irridu, already in Hurrian territory.

It is known from six references in 13th century BC Hittite sources, including:

According to the written historical sources, the region of Sivas province was first inhabited during the period of the Hittite civilization by the beginning of 2000 BC and became an important settlement.

It has also been suggested that the mountain could be the geographical setting for Baucis and Philemon tale as well, while most sources still usually associate it with Tyana ( Hittite Tuwanuwa ) in modern-day Kemerhisar near Niğde.

Broad beans remained prominent though, be it in the Near East where the seeds are mentioned in Hittite and Ancient Egyptian sources dating from more than 3, 000 years ago as well as in the Bible, or in the large Celtic Oppidum of Manching from La Tène Europe some 2, 200 years ago.

The Carian language was spoken in Caria, a region of western Anatolia between the ancient regions of Lycia and Lydia, by the Carians, a name possibly first mentioned in Hittite sources.

The name Nig ˘ de first occurs in written sources in the form na-hi-ti-ia in a Luwian inscription of king Saruanis from Andaval as was pointed out by Gelb ( Hittite Hieroglyphs II pp. 17 – 18 ).

However, this story may reflect a cultural influence which had the reverse direction: Hittite cuneiform texts mention a Minor Asian god called Appaliunas or Apalunas in connection with the city of Wilusa attested in Hittite inscriptions, which is now generally regarded as being identical with the Greek Ilion by most scholars.

Some Hittite texts mention a nation lying to the west called Ahhiyawa.

The most valuable evidence, if relevant, are the treaties and letters mentioned in Hittite cuneiform texts of the same approximate era, which mention an unruly Western Anatolian warlord named Piyama-Radu ( possibly Priam ) and his successor Alaksandu ( possibly Alexander, the nickname of Paris ) both based in Wilusa ( possibly Ilion / Ilios ), as well as the god Apaliunas ( possibly Apollo ).

Hittite archives, like the Tawagalawa letter mention of a kingdom of Ahhiyawa ( Achaea, or Greece ) that lies beyond the sea ( that would be the Aegean ) and controls Milliwanda, which is identified with Miletus.

No mention of the Sherden has ever been found in Hittite or Greek legends or documents, suggesting that they did not originate from either sphere of influence.

Hittite annals mention a people called Hurri (), located in northeastern Syria.

As the royal inscriptions mention an invasion of Hanilgalbat by a Hittite king, there may have been a new rebellion, or at least native support of a Hittite invasion.

Though never appearing onstage, throughout the book the Hittite King Suppiluliuma I appears as a brooding threatening figure of a completely ruthless conqueror and tyrannical ruler.

This alliance is recorded in the correspondence between the Arzawan ruler Tarhundaradu and the Pharaoh Amenophis III called Arzawa letters, part of the archive of the Amarna letters ( Nr. 31 and 32 ), having played a substantial role in the decipherment of the Hittite language in which they were written.

The first substantive claim as to the affiliation of the Hittite language was made by Jørgen Alexander Knudtzon in 1902 in a book devoted to two letters between the king of Egypt and a Hittite ruler, found at El-Amarna in Egypt.

To the non-specialist general public, Suppiluliuma I is mainly known from the best-selling historical novel The Egyptian by Mika Waltari, in which the Hittite king is presented as the ultimate villain, a ruthless conqueror and utterly tyrannical ruler.

During the Hittite period in the twelfth century B. C., the ruler Tuthalia IV, granted Anemorium to Mattuvata who had taken refuge in his kingdom.

He is best known as the Hittite ruler who fought Ramesses II to a standstill at the Battle of Kadesh around 1274 BC.

It states that this ruler sacked the city of Tarhutassa which was a Hittite city and had briefly served as the Empire's political capital under the reign of Muwatalli II.

In the treaty between Muwatalli II and Talmi-Šarruma of Aleppo, reference is made to a ruler named Hattusili, but it is debated whether the reference is to an otherwise unknown Hittite ruler, or rather to Hattusili I.

He is the earliest Hittite ruler for whom contemporary records have been found.

He is the earliest known ruler to compose a text in the Hittite language.

The inscription, repeated in cuneiform around the rim, gives the seal owner's name: the Hittite ruler Tarkummuwa.

In the earliest reference to this land, a letter outlining the treaty violations of the Hittite vassal Madduwatta, it is called Ahhiya.

The Hittite kingdom was centred on the lands surrounding Hattusa and Neša, known as " the land Hatti " ().

< BLOCKQUOTE > Genesis 49: 29 And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.

The Book of Genesis relates that Abraham specifically purchased the land as a burial plot from Ephron the Hittite, making it one of two purchases by Abraham of real estate in the Land of Canaan, the Promised Land.

According to the book of Genesis, Abraham purchased the plot of land for her tomb from a man named Ephron the Hittite.

It formed the western boundary of Hatti, the core land of the Hittite empire.

*: And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite 30: In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.

*: For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a burying place of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

*: And to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and to the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the mountains, and to the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpeh.

*: Again the word of the L < SMALL > OD </ SMALL > unto Jerusalem ; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan ; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.

A tablet records his grant of much of Mukish's land ( that is, Alalakh's ) to Ugarit after the king of Ugarit alerted the Hittite king to a revolt by the kingdoms of Mukish, Nuhassa, and Niye.

There is a theory that the name " Lycaonia " is a Greek-adapted version ( influenced by the Greek man's name Lycaon ) of an original Lukkawanna, which would mean " the land of the Lukka people " in an old Anatolian language related to Hittite.

Others ( following Max Müller ) have identified Kittim with the land of Hatti ( Khatti ), as the Hittite Empire was known.