Hittites
The Hittites (/ˈhɪtaɪts/) were an Anatolian people who played an important role in establishing an empire centered on Hattusa in north-central Anatolia around 1600 BC. This empire reached its height during the mid-14th century BC under Suppiluliuma I, when it encompassed an area that included most of Anatolia as well as parts of the northern Levant and Upper Mesopotamia.
Quotes
[edit]- And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.
- Oh, sweet Anu, if our king,
Holy Bera, with the sting
Of our lashing swords and lances will allow us to adore thee,
On the Hittites we will fall,
And their chiefs and maidens all
We will smite, and slay, and ravish, and in thousands bring before thee!- Francis Saltus Saltus, "Lot's Wife", The Witch of En-dor, and Other Poems (1891)
