Kammanu
Kammanu Malizi | |||||||||
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| c. 1200–712 BC | |||||||||
 Kammanu and its capital Melid/Milid among the Neo-Hittite states | |||||||||
| Capital | Melid | ||||||||
| Common languages | Hieroglyphic Luwian | ||||||||
| Religion | Luwian religion | ||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
| Historical era | Iron Age | ||||||||
• Established | c. 1200 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 712 BC | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Turkey | ||||||||
Kammanu was a Luwian speaking Neo-Hittite state in a plateau (Malatya Plain) to the north of the Taurus Mountains and to the west of Euphrates river in the late 2nd millennium BC, formed from part of Kizzuwatna after the collapse of the Hittite Empire.[1] Its principal city was Melid.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Albert Ten Eyck Olmstead (1908). Western Asia in the Days of Sargon of Assyria. New Era Printing Company. pp. 91–.
- ^ Sarah C. Melville (27 July 2016). The Campaigns of Sargon II, King of Assyria, 721–705 B.C. University of Oklahoma Press. pp. 169–. ISBN 978-0-8061-5682-8.
See also
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Syro-Hittite states and cities | |||||||||||||||||
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| Luwian states |
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| Aramaean states |
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