Kuşşara
Ancient siteKangal, Sivas
39.3850°N · 37.5020°E
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Kuşşara is a ancient site in Kangal, Sivas; Kussara was a Middle Bronze Age city and small kingdom in Anatolia.
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Kussara was a Middle Bronze Age city and small kingdom in Anatolia. Though apparently important at one time, it is mostly remembered today as the origin of the dynasty that would form the Old Hittite Kingdom.
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- The city Hittite kings traced their ancestry to has never been located archaeologically.
- Candidates include Acemhöyük, the Elbistan plain, Şar, Alişar, Pınarbaşı and Altınyayla.
- Anitta set out from here, took Kaneş and used the title Great King.
- It is named from 19th-century BC Assyrian trade tablets to 17th-century Hittite texts.
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