Hittite sites

The geography of the Hittite Empire is known from Hittite texts on one hand, and from archaeological excavation on the other. Matching philology to archaeology is a difficult task, and only a handful of sites are identified with their ancient name with certainty.

The Hittite kingdom was centered around the lands surrounding Hattusa and Neša, known as "the land of the Hatti" (^URU"Ha-at-ti"). After Hattusa was made capital, the area encompassed by the bend of the Halys River (which they called the Marassantiya) was considered the core of the empire, and some Hittite laws make a distinction between "this side of the river" and "that side of the river", for example, the reward for the capture of an runaway slave after he managed to flee beyond the Halys is higher than that for a slave caught before he could reach the river.

To the south of the core territory was the land of Kizzuwatna in the area of the Taurus Mountains.To the west, the confederacy of Arzawa.To the north, the mountain people of the "Kaskians".To the east, the Mitanni.After the incorporation or association of Arzawa and Mitanni (under Suppiluliuma I), the Hittite sphere of influence under Mursili II bordered on the "Hayasa-Azzi" to the east, on the "Ahhiyawa" and the newly-forming Assuwa league to the west, on Egypt-controlled Canaan to the south, and on Assyria to the south-east.

List of Hittite sites

*Acem Hüyük
*Tell Açana
*Adana
*Tell Ahmar
*Akar Çay
*Aksu Çayı
*Alaca Hüyük
*Aleppo
*Alişar
*Amasya
*Andaval
*Antakya
*Antalya
*Arslantepe-Malatya
*Asarçık
*Bahçe
*Bakır Çey
*Bergama
*Beycesultan
*Beyköy
*Beyşehir Gölü
*Birecik
*Bobeypınarı
*Bodrum
*Boğazkale: Hattusa
*Bolkarmaden
*Bolu
*Bor
*Bursa
*Büyükmenderes Nehir
*Büyüknefes
*Çagdin
*Çalapverdi
*Çankırı in Paphlagonia
*Çekerek
*Ceyhan Nehir
*Çorum
*Darende
*Dazmana
*Delice Su
*Demirci-deresi
*Devrez Çayı
*Didim
*Divriği
*Efes
*Eflatun Pinar
*Eğirdir Gölü
*Eğrek
*Eğriköy
*Elbistan
*Emirgazi
*Ereğli
*Erkilet
*Ermenek
*Eskişehir
*Eskiyapar
*Tell al-Fakhariyeh
*Fasiler
*Fraktin
*Gâvur Kalesi
*Gaziantep
*Gediz Nehir
*Gilindere
*Giresun
*Gök Irmak
*Gök Su
*Gülnar
*Gürün
*Hama
*Hanyeri
*Hatip
*Havuzköy
*Hisarlık: Wilusa
*Hüseyindede Tepe
*Ilgaz Dağı
*Imamkulu
*İnandık
*Iskendenru
*Islâhiye
*Ispekçür
*Istanbul
*Ivriz
*Izgın
*İzmir
*İzmit
*İznik
*Jekke
*Jerablus
*Jubayl
*Karabel
*Karaburçlu
*Karaburun
*Karahüyük by Elbistan
*Karahüyük by Konya
*Karakuyu
*Karaman
*Karatepe
*Karga
*Kaş
*Kayalıpınar
*Kayseri
*Tell Kazel
*Kelkit Çay
*Kemah
*Kilise Tepe
*Kinet Hüyük
*Kızıl Irmak
*Kızıldağ
*Konya: Tarhuntassa?
*Korucutepe
*Kötükale
*Köylütolu
*Küçükmenderes Nehir
*Kültepe: Kaneš
*Kürtoğlu
*Kurubel
*Kuşaklı: Sarissa
*Lésvos
*Mahalıç
*Malkaya
*Manisa
*Mar'aş
*Maşat Hüyük
*Menderes Çayı
*Mersin
*Meskene
*Milet
*el-Mishrifeh
*Mitlini
*Mut
*Niğde
*Nur Dağları
*Ortaköy, Çorum: Sapinuwa
*Palanga
*Porsuk Çay
*Pozantı
*Qalat el-Mudiq
*Ras Shamra
*Restan
*Saida
*Sakarya Nehir
*Sakçagözü
*Samsat: Samosata
*Şar
*Sart
*Şebin Karahısar
*Selgin
*Seyhan Nehir
*Silifke
*Sipylus
*Sirkeli
*Sivas
*Sivasa
*Sivri Hisar
*Sultanhanı
*Tell Tainat
*Tarsus
*Tasçın
*Tekir
*Tell Nebi Mend
*Topada
*Torbalı
*Turhal
*Tuz Gölü
*Tyre
*Yağri
*Yazılıkaya
*Zile
*Zincirli

References

*Garstang & Gurney, "Geography of the Hittite Empire" (1959)

External links

* [http://hittites.info/map.aspx#DisplayMap Map of the Hittite Empire]
* [http://www.ancientanatolia.com/map02.htm Map of the Hittite Sites]