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Hittites: rulers and royal family

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Alaksandu

Alakšandu, also known as Alaksandu of Wilusa, was a Late Bronze Age king of Wilusa in western Anatolia who concluded a treaty with Muwatalli II around 1280 BC.

Alluwamna

Alluwamna was a Hittite Great King of the Middle Kingdom who reigned around 1460 BC, probably the son-in-law and adoptive heir of King Telepinu, known from fragmentary cuneiform tablets found at Hattusa.

Ammuna

Ammuna was a king of the Hittite Old Kingdom, dated around 1550–1530 BC, who succeeded Zidanta I and was succeeded by Huzziya I, whose accession followed the murder of Ammuna's probable sons and heirs.

Anitta (king of Kussara)

Anitta, also known as Anittas, was an Anatolian king of Kussara, son of Pithana, who conquered Nesa and destroyed Hattusa around 1730 BC and is known from the Anitta Text.

Anniya

Anniya, also written Anniyas or Anniyash, was the last named king of Azzi-Hayasa in eastern Anatolia, defeated by the Hittite king Mursili II around 1321–1295 BC.

Anzapahhaddu

Anzapahhaddu was a ruler in the Arzawa sphere of western Anatolia in the second half of the 14th century BC, known only from Hittite texts.

Arnuwanda I

Arnuwanda I, also written Arnuwandas I, was a Hittite Great King of the late 15th century BC, married to Queen Ašmu-nikal and known for his edicts and frontier treaties.

Arnuwanda II

Arnuwanda II, also written Arnuwandas II, was a Hittite king of the New Kingdom, eldest son and successor of Šuppiluliuma I, who reigned c. 1322–1321 BC.

Arnuwanda III

Arnuwanda III was a king of the Hittite Empire who ruled briefly around 1209–1207 BC, near the empire's end, and was succeeded by his brother Šuppiluliuma II.

Ašmu-nikal

Ašmu-nikal, also written Ašmunikkal, was a queen of the Hittite kingdom during the Middle Hittite period, the wife of King Arnuwanda I and daughter of Queen Nikalmati.

Bente-Shina

Bentešina, also written Benteshina, was king of Amurru in Syria in the 13th century BC, a Hittite vassal who was exiled for rebellion and later restored by Hattusili III.

Dadu-Hepa

Dadu-Hepa, also written Tadu-Hepa, was a Hittite queen holding the title Tawananna as the second wife of King Tudhaliya III, mother of Henti and Tudhaliya the Younger.

Danuhepa

Danuhepa, also Tanuhepa, was a Hittite Great Queen known from seal impressions found at the capital Hattusa and from a court case that ruined her.

Eheya

Eheya was a king of Kizzuwatna, a kingdom in south-eastern Anatolia roughly corresponding to Cilicia, who ruled in the 15th century BC and made an equal-terms treaty with the Hittite king Tahurwaili.

Gassulawiya

Gassulawiya was a wife of the Hittite king Mursili II in the late 14th century BC and mother of the later kings Muwatalli II and Hattusili III.

Hantili I

Hantili I, also written Ḫantili, was a Hittite Old Kingdom king who murdered his predecessor and brother-in-law Mursili I to seize the throne, reigning about 1590 to 1560 BC.

Hantili II

Hantili II was a Hittite king of the Middle Kingdom period, reigning around 1490-1480 BC after Tahurwaili and before Zidanta II, known for renewing the treaty with Kizzuwatna.

Ḫarapšili

Ḫarapšili, also written Harapsili, is a name of the Hittite Old Kingdom, known from the 16th-century BC reign of King Hantili I, Muršili I's brother-in-law.

Hartapu

Hartapu (Ḫartapu) was a ruler of south-central Anatolia who styled himself Great King and son of Mursili, known from monuments at Kızıl Dağ and Karadağ.

Hattusili I

Hattusili I, also known as Labarna II, was a Hittite Old Kingdom king who reigned c. 1650–1620 BC, moved the capital to Hattusa, and campaigned in northern Syria.

Hattusili III

Hattusili III, also Hattusilis III, was king of the Hittite Empire from about 1267 to 1237 BC, best known for his peace treaty with Ramesses II.

Henti

Ḫenti was a queen of the Hittite Empire in the 14th century BC, the wife of King Šuppiluliuma I, who probably held the office of Tawananna, or Great Queen.

Huzziya (Zalpuwa)

Ḫuzziya of Zalpuwa was a king of the Anatolian city-state of Zalpuwa, probably in the 18th century BC, known only from the Anitta text, which says Anitta took him captive to Nesa.

Huzziya I

Ḫuzziya I (Huzziyas I) was a Hittite Old Kingdom king who reigned briefly around 1530 BC, between Ammuna and Telipinu, who dethroned and exiled him.

Huzziya II

Huzziya II (Ḫuzziya II) was a Hittite Middle Kingdom king of the mid-15th century BC, reigning between Zidanta II and Muwattalli I and traditionally murdered by Muwattalli, his bodyguard chief, who seized the throne.

Ini-Teshub

Ini-Teššub was a king of Carchemish in the 13th century BC, ruling as viceroy in Syria for the Hittite Great Kings and attested by a treaty with Ugarit.

Isputahsu

Isputahsu, also written Išputahšu, was the earliest known king of Kizzuwatna, a Late Bronze Age kingdom in southeastern Anatolia, ruling in the late 16th century BC.

Kukkunni

Kukkunni was a king of Wilusa, a Late Bronze Age kingdom in western Anatolia, who kept peaceful relations with the Hittite emperor Suppiluliuma I while neighboring Arzawa was in revolt.

Kurunta

Kurunta, rendered Kuruntas and Kuruntiya, was a son of the Hittite great king Muwatalli II who ruled the vassal kingdom of Tarhuntassa in southern Anatolia in the late 13th century BC.

Labarna I

Labarna I was an early Hittite king of the early seventeenth century BC, predecessor of Hattusili I, whose name became the royal title borne by later Hittite kings.