Talk:History of the Hittites
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The article should better be merged with the Hittites article! --JFK 15:57, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
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I undid the last two changes to the article, as it appears to have been vandalised. Please make sure that the changes are correct, I am new to WP. Crohan 12:33, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Copyright vio?
The text
- It is generally assumed that the Hittites came into Anatolia some time before 2000 B.C. While their earlier location is disputed, there has been strong evidence for more than a century that the home of the Indo-Europeans in the fourth and third millennia was in what is now Bulgaria and Ukraine. The Hittites and other members of the Anatolian family, then, came from the north, possibly along the Caspian Sea. The dominant inhabitants in central Anatolia at the time were Hattians. There were also Assyrian colonies in the country; it was from these that the Hittites adopted the cuneiform script. It took some time before the Hittites established themselves, as is clear from some of the texts included here. For several centuries there were separate Hittite groups, usually centered around various cities. But then strong rulers with their center in Boğazköy succeeded in bringing these together and conquering large parts of central Anatolia to establish the Hittite kingdom.
seems to be uncomfortably close to
