Huzziya was the last recorded king of
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. He was captured by
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the
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king of
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. Anitta had been confronted with what appears to have been a military alliance of states stretching southwards from Zalpa, an alliance in which
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, the king of Hatti, and Huzziya, the king of Zalpa, played leading roles.
He is attested for in the Anitta Text, which records, “…all the lands from Zalpuwa by the Sea. Formerly Mr. Uḫna, King of Zalpuwa, carried off our god from Neša to Zalpuwa. Later I, Anitta, Great King, carried back our god from Zalpuwa to Neša. I brought Ḫuzziya, King of Zalpuwa, alive to Neša.
Huzziya may have been an ancestor and possibly grandfather of Huzziya I, Hittite king of the Old Kingdom (c. 1530–1525).