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cylinder seal
form of seal used in ancient times to roll an impression onto a two-dimensional surface
Kizzuwatna
Kizzuwatna () was an ancient Anatolian kingdom attested in written sources from the end of the 16th century BC onwards. Although its origins remain obscure, the Middle Bronze Age in Cilicia (ca. 2000–1550 BC) may be regarded as its possible formative period. Kizzuwatna was situated primarily in the Cilician Plain of southeastern Anatolia, near the Gulf of İskenderun, in modern-day Turkey. It was bounded by the Central Taurus Mountains and the Amanus Mountains. The centre of the kingdom was the city of Kummanni, located in the highlands.
Kaskians
The Kaska (also Kaška, later Tabalian Kasku and Gasga) were a loosely affiliated Bronze Age non-Indo-European tribal people, who spoke the unclassified Kaskian language and lived in mountainous East Pontic Anatolia, known from Hittite sources. They lived in the mountainous region between the core Hittite region in eastern Anatolia and the Black Sea, and are cited as the reason that the later Hittite Empire never extended northward to that area. They are sometimes identified with the Caucones known from Greek records.
Wilusa
thumb|385x385px|Map of Bronze Age [[Near East depicting the location of Wilusa in Northwest Anatolia.]]
Lukka lands
poorly understood ancient Mediterranean group
Isuwa
Isuwa (transcribed Išuwa and sometimes rendered Ishuwa, Issuwa), was a kingdom founded by the Hurrians, which came under Hittite sovereignty towards 1600 BC as a result of their struggle with the Hittites.
Madduwatta
275px|thumb|Anatolia during the Late Bronze Age
Pala
Palà was an ancient region of Anatolia to the northwest of Hattusa at the time the Hittites took control of the land of Hatti. Its inhabitants spoke an Indo-European language called palaumnili and appear to have coexisted with the Hattians for centuries prior. They are lost to history with the advance of Kaskian peoples from the east in the early 1500s BC.
Mursili's eclipse
solar eclipse mentioned in a text dating to the reign of Mursili II that could be of great importance for the chronology of the Hittite Empire
Red River
Japanese manga series
Seha River Land
kingdom in West-Anatolia
Hittite plague
epidemic in Hittite Empire
Kalašma
Kalašma or Kalasma (occasionally Kalašpa) was a late Bronze Age polity in Northern Anatolia on the border of the Hittite Empire.
Pitassa
thumb|400px|Map of the Hittite Empire at its greatest extent, with Hittite rule Pitassa is an as-yet undiscovered frontier land/city in western Anatolia, mentioned in Bronze Age archives at Hattusa. The name seems Luwian or considered Hittite.
Walmu
Walmu was a king of Wiluša, likely modern Hisarlık, in the late 13th century BC.