The early history of the Hittite kingdom
Time: 19th Century BC
Place: Anatolia
Details: The early history of the Hittite kingdom is known through tablets that may first have been written in the 19th - 18th century BC, in Hittite; but most of the tablets survived only as Akkadian copies made in the 14th and 13th centuries BC. These reveal a rivalry within two branches of the royal family up to the Middle Kingdom; a northern branch first based in Zalpuwa and secondarily Hattusa, and a southern branch based in Kussara (still not found) and the former Assyrian colony of Kanesh. These are distinguishable by their names; the northerners retained language isolate Hattian names, and the southerners adopted Indo-European Hittite and Luwian names.
Best-effort ordering. Some events may appear out of order since many are only known to the year, but they are usually around the same period.
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