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- noun Plural form of
Hittite .
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Examples
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The Hittites were a powerful civilization that controlled most of Anatolia in the second millennium B.C. More ...
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The Hittites were the only great state of the Ancient
Dictionary of the History of Ideas ARNALDO MOMIGLIANO 1968
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Several monuments bearing inscriptions which are sorely puzzling the archaeologists have recently been unearthed at the site of Boghaz-Keni which was the ancient, if not original capital, of the mysterious people called the Hittites who have been for so long a worry to Bible students.
Marvels of Modern Science Paul Severing
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The Hittites were a powerful non-Semitic people, whose capital was Carchemish, on the
General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers
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For the Hittites were a very prominent group among the inhabitants of the land and so came to stand for all of them.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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The writing of the Hittites was a picture-writing; and even the arrow-head writing of the Babylonians and Assyrians, and the contorted characters of the Chinese, are abridged picture-writings in which the pictorial forms are yet in some instances discernible.
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We will take up the narrative at that critical point where the Hittites are about to execute their flank movement, and so isolate Rameses from his army.
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Professor Sayce reveals that certain people known as Hittites had yellow skins.
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At least three or four peoples were known as Hittites in the
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The [[Armenia]] ns were also known as the Hittites and all other tribes roundabout.
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