Kussara

Kussara was a Bronze Age city that could not be located until today. Maybe it is to look in the southeast Anatolia. The rulers Kuššaras extended their sphere of influence in the 18th century BC to Central Anatolia, conquered the commercial metropolis Kanes - Nesa and Hattusa destroyed, the later capital of the Hittite empire.

History

Kussara was a trading station ( wabartum ) during the Old Assyrian karum time. It had a ruler's palace, where a murder of Assyrian merchants in Luḫuzatia was displayed. Both places lay on the trade route between Ḫurama samuha and why they need to be south of the Kizilirmak sought. The hethtitische La (HU) wazantiya was the birthplace of Queen Puduḫepa and lay near Come on Anna, the most important place of worship in Kizzuwatna. Thus Kussara is rather north of it to look.

The first known ruler of Kussara was Pitḫana who conquered the Assyrian trading center Kaniš. His son Anitta began in the 18th century BC with the expansion of its sphere of influence and eventually became the dominant local rulers in Anatolia. His residence after he moved Kane. As respondent Anittas in the battle for supremacy and the city Hattusa is mentioned that he destroyed and their recolonisation he sought to be prevented by a curse by leaving sprinkle salt on the ruins and fields.

From Kussara also Hattusili I, the first historically backed rulers of the Hittite empire, which in the mid-16th century BC begins the series of Hittite kings came from. Hattusili I moved his residence from Kussara after Hattusa, which was henceforth to remain the capital of the Hittite Empire. The associated loss of importance Kuššaras is probably also the reason that the city is no longer mentioned in the younger Hittite written sources.