coord 38 22 55 N 38 21 40 E display title Melid Hittite language Hittite Malidiya ref http books.google.com books?id O1yFrzi MgYC&pg PA35 Melid . Reallexikon der Assyriologie. Accessed 12 Dec 2010. ref and possibly also Midduwa ref KBo V 8 IV 18. Op. cit. Puhvel, Jaan. Trends in Linguistics http books.google.com books?id XROpWC99BD0C&pg PA101 Hittite Etymological Dictionary Vol. 6 Words Beginning with M. Walter de Gruyter, 2004. Accessed 12 Dec 2010. ref Akkadian language Akkadian Meliddu ref Hawkins, John D. Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions. Vol. 1 Inscriptions of the Iron Age. Walter de Gruyter, 2000. ref Urartian language Urartian Melitea Latin Melitene was an ancient city on the Tohma River, a tributary of the upper Euphrates rising in the Taurus Mountains . It has been identified with modern Arslantepe near Malatya , Turkey . Infobox settlement pushpin map Turkey the name of a location map as per http en.wikipedia.org wiki Template Location map pushpin label position bottom pushpin mapsize 250 pushpin map caption Location in Turkey latd 38 latm 22 lats 55 latNS N longd 38 longm 21 longs 40 longEW E official name Arslantepe History The site has been inhabited since the development of agriculture in the fertile crescent dating to the Uruk period . From the Bronze Age the site became an administrative center of a larger region in the kingdom of Isuwa . The city was heavily fortified, probably due to the Hittites Hittite threat from the west. The Hittites conquered the city in the fourteenth century BC. In the mid 14th century BC, Melid was the base of the Hittite king Suppiluliuma I on his campaign to sack the Mitanni capital Wassukanni . After the end of the Hittite empire, from the 12th to 7th century BC, the city became the center of an independent Luwian ... of Melid being forced to pay tribute to Assyria. Melid remained able to prosper until the Assyrian ... eo Arslantepe fr Arslantepe it Arslantepe pl Melid ru tr Arslantepe H y ... more details
Portal Ancient Near East image NeoHittiteStates.gif thumb 200px right Historical map of the Neo Hittite states, ca. 800 BC, showing the location of Kammanu with Melid. Kammanu was a Luwian speaking Neo Hittite state in South Central Anatolia in the late 2nd millennium BC, formed from part of Kizzuwatna after the collapse of the Hittite Empire . Its principal city was Melid . Category Kammanu Category Syro Hittite states AncientNearEast stub ... more details
was defeated but Tiglath pieleser III pardoned Ku ta pi along with the kings of Melid and Gurgum ... of Melid was dismembered by the Assyrian king Sargon II city of Melid itself was given to Kummuh ... more details
Kings and Country lords of Melid and Karkamish of the Early Iron Age, proving an uninterrupted ... and Melid in Hawkins, John David 2000. Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions. 3 vols De Gruyter ... , Ishtunda Kammanu with Melid Hilakku Quw with a stronghold at modern Karatepe Gurgum Kummuh Carchemish ..., Melid, Aleppo and elsewhere. ref Hawkins, John David 1986b. Writing in Anatolia imported and indigenous ... more details
Satrapy centred on Van, and the Armenians were under the 13th Satrapy centred on Melid Malatya , even ... by claiming that the hieroglyphic inscriptions of tenth to 7th century found in Tabal, Melid, Commagene ... BC in Melid Malatya , Tabal and Commagene, and in the course of the 8th century BC we note multiple ... 712 711 BC . 3. Kingdom of Melid Malatya starts in 9th century BC. Shakhu Shara 9th c. Khelaruada ... son ...ussi Anushawan, as in Melid. 6. There are quite a few city kingdoms to the west of Tabal and some ..., Ostan, was created beginning of 6th century BC and stood for the ex royal Houses of Aram, Melid and Tabal ... more details
language Hittite , melid or milit means honey, offering a possible etymology for the name, which was mentioned ... Hittite Malidiya ref http books.google.com books?id O1yFrzi MgYC&pg PA35 Melid . Reallexikon der Assyriologie ... more details
in the Neo Hittite states of Syria , such as Melid and Carchemish , as well as in the central ... reserved specifically for the Luwian speaking principalities like Melid Malatya and Karkamish Carchemish ... more details
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