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Hattusa

Proper noun

Meaning

Hattusa

The ancient capital of the Hittite Empire in the late Bronze Age, whose ruins are located in what is now Turkey.

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Examples

As noted above, important discoveries of Hurrian culture and history were also made at Alalakh, Amarna, Hattusa and Ugarit. Source: Internet

Another weak phase followed Tudhaliya I, and the Hittites' enemies from all directions were able to advance even to Hattusa and raze it. Source: Internet

It belongs to a pair of sphinxes from the Sphinx Gate of the Yerkapi rampart at Hattusa. Source: Internet

It was the only long Hurrian text known until a multi-tablet collection of literature in Hurrian with a Hittite translation was discovered at Hattusa in 1983. Source: Internet

New Kingdom Tudhaliya IV (relief in Hattusa With the reign of Tudhaliya I (who may actually not have been the first of that name; see also Tudhaliya ), the Hittite Kingdom re-emerges from the fog of obscurity. Source: Internet

The language of the Hattusa tablets was eventually deciphered by a Czech linguist, Bedřich Hrozný (1879–1952), who, on 24 November 1915, announced his results in a lecture at the Near Eastern Society of Berlin. Source: Internet

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