Kussara (Kuššara) was a city of
Bronze AgeThe Bronze Age of a culture is the period when the most advanced metalworking in that culture utilised bronze. This could either have been based on the local smelting of copper and tin from ores, or trading for bronze from production areas elsewhere...
south-eastern
AnatoliaAnatolia is a geographic region of Western Asia, comprising most of the modern Republic of Turkey. The region is bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Caucasus to the northeast, the Iranian plateau to the southeast, the Mediterranean Sea to the south and the Aegean Sea to the west...
. The rulers of Kuššara extended their authority over central Anatolia, conquering
HittiteHittite is the extinct language once spoken by the Hittites, a people who created an empire centered on Hattusa in north-central Anatolia...
-speaking Kanesh, destroying the future Hittite capital of
HattusaHattusa was the capital of the Hittite Empire in the late Bronze Age...
, and subjugating territories as far north as the Black Sea.
A man named
PithanaPithana was a Hittite Bronze Age king of the Anatolian city Kussara. He reigned ca. the 17th century BC . During his reign he conquered the city of Kanesh, heart of the Assyrian trading colonies network in Anatolia and core of the Hittite speaking territories.He was succeeded by his son, Anitta,...
is the earliest known ruler of Kuššara and was responsible for the conquest of Kanesh (Neša). His son
AnittaAnitta, son of Pithana, was a king of Kussara, a city that has yet to be identified. He is the earliest known ruler to compose a text in the Hittite language....
extended these conquests, destroyed the future Hittite capital
HattusaHattusa was the capital of the Hittite Empire in the late Bronze Age...
, and is the earliest known ruler to memorialize his achievements using the Hittite language.
After the founding of the Hittite dynasty, Labarna II (Hattusili I) in the 17th century is still called "man of Kussara" along with his title of King of Hattusa.
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Kussara (Kuššara) was a city of
Bronze AgeThe Bronze Age of a culture is the period when the most advanced metalworking in that culture utilised bronze. This could either have been based on the local smelting of copper and tin from ores, or trading for bronze from production areas elsewhere...
south-eastern
AnatoliaAnatolia is a geographic region of Western Asia, comprising most of the modern Republic of Turkey. The region is bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Caucasus to the northeast, the Iranian plateau to the southeast, the Mediterranean Sea to the south and the Aegean Sea to the west...
. The rulers of Kuššara extended their authority over central Anatolia, conquering
HittiteHittite is the extinct language once spoken by the Hittites, a people who created an empire centered on Hattusa in north-central Anatolia...
-speaking Kanesh, destroying the future Hittite capital of
HattusaHattusa was the capital of the Hittite Empire in the late Bronze Age...
, and subjugating territories as far north as the Black Sea.
A man named
PithanaPithana was a Hittite Bronze Age king of the Anatolian city Kussara. He reigned ca. the 17th century BC . During his reign he conquered the city of Kanesh, heart of the Assyrian trading colonies network in Anatolia and core of the Hittite speaking territories.He was succeeded by his son, Anitta,...
is the earliest known ruler of Kuššara and was responsible for the conquest of Kanesh (Neša). His son
AnittaAnitta, son of Pithana, was a king of Kussara, a city that has yet to be identified. He is the earliest known ruler to compose a text in the Hittite language....
extended these conquests, destroyed the future Hittite capital
HattusaHattusa was the capital of the Hittite Empire in the late Bronze Age...
, and is the earliest known ruler to memorialize his achievements using the Hittite language.
After the founding of the Hittite dynasty, Labarna II (Hattusili I) in the 17th century is still called "man of Kussara" along with his title of King of Hattusa. After his unsuccessful siege of
AleppoAleppo is a city in northern Syria, the second largest Syrian city and the capital of the Aleppo Governorate; the Governorate extends around the city for over 16,000 km² and has a population of 4,393,000, making it the largest Governorate in Syria by population...
, Hattusili returned badly wounded to Kussara, so that it may be plausible to locate it somewhere between Nesa and Aleppo.