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Labarna II was the first king of the Hittite empire to reign from Hattusa
Hattusa

Hattusa was the capital of the Hittite Empire in the late Bronze Age. The region is set in a loop of the Kizil River in central Anatolia.Hattusa was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1986....
 (while the earlier kings had been at Neša), taking the throne name of Hattusili I on that occasion. He reigned ca. 1586–1556 BC (short chronology).

He is the earliest Hittite ruler for whom contemporary records have been found. In addition to "King of Hattusa", he took the title "Man of Kushara", a reference to the prehistoric capital and home of the Hittites, before they had occupied Neša.






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Labarna II was the first king of the Hittite empire to reign from Hattusa
Hattusa

Hattusa was the capital of the Hittite Empire in the late Bronze Age. The region is set in a loop of the Kizil River in central Anatolia.Hattusa was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1986....
 (while the earlier kings had been at Neša), taking the throne name of Hattusili I on that occasion. He reigned ca. 1586–1556 BC (short chronology).

He is the earliest Hittite ruler for whom contemporary records have been found. In addition to "King of Hattusa", he took the title "Man of Kushara", a reference to the prehistoric capital and home of the Hittites, before they had occupied Neša. A cuneiform tablet found in 1957 written in both the Hittite and the Akkadian language
Akkadian language

Akkadian or Assyrian-Babylonian is a Semitic language that was spoken in ancient Mesopotamia. The earliest attested Semitic language, it used the cuneiform writing system derived ultimately from ancient Sumerian language, an unrelated language isolate....
 provides details of six years of his reign.

In it, he claims to have extended Hittite domain to the sea, and in the second year, to have subdued Alalakh
Alalakh

Alalakh , is the name of an ancient Amorite city and its associated city-state of the Amuq River, located in the Hatay Province region of southern Turkey, now represented by an extensive city-mound....
 and other cities in Syria. In the third year, he campaigned against Arzawa
Arzawa

Arzawa was the name of a region or kingdom in Western Anatolia, which later to be known as Lydia in the post-Hittite era. It was the western neighbour and sometimes vassal of the Hittites, and probably bordered on the Assuwa league to the north....
 in western Anatolia, then returned to Syria to spend the next three years retaking his former conquests from the Hurrians
Hurrians

The Hurrians were a people of the Ancient Near East, who lived in northern Mesopotamia and areas to the immediate east and west, beginning approximately 2500 BC....
, who had occupied them in his absence.

He built a hill citadel
Citadel

A citadel is a Fortification for protecting a town, sometimes incorporating a castle. The term derives from the same Latin language root as the word "city", civis, meaning citizen....
 at Hattusa
Hattusa

Hattusa was the capital of the Hittite Empire in the late Bronze Age. The region is set in a loop of the Kizil River in central Anatolia.Hattusa was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1986....
 (modern Boghazkoy).

See also

  • History of the Hittites
    History of the Hittites

    Hittites is the conventional English-language term for an ancient people who spoke an Indo-European language and established a kingdom centered in Hattusa in northern Turkey from the 18th century BC....


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