Melid, also known as Arslantepe, was an ancient city on the Tohma River, a tributary of the upper Euphrates rising in the Taurus Mountains. It has been...
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The city has been a human settlement for thousands of years. In Hittite, melid or milit means "honey", offering a possible etymology for the name, which...
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from Melid.[citation needed] The next known Great King of Carchemish was Ir-Teshub. Kuzi-Teshub is not proved to have ruled directly as King of Melid. On...
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the Hittite imperial dynasty and the "Great Kings" and "Country-lords" of Melid and Karkamish of the Early Iron Age, proving an uninterrupted continuity...
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bank of the Upper Euphrates within the eastern loop of the river between Melid and Carchemish. Assyrian sources refer to both the land and its capital...
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Kizzuwatna after the collapse of the Hittite Empire. Its principal city was Melid. Albert Ten Eyck Olmstead (1908). Western Asia in the Days of Sargon of...
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century BC. Important Luwian centres in this period included Carchemish, Melid, and Tabal. The Luwian religion is attested up to the early Roman period...
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Institute has argued that Luwian was spoken from the eastern Aegean coast to Melid and as far north as Alaca Hoyuk during the Hittite Kingdom. After the collapse...
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was also the language spoken in the Neo-Hittite states of Syria, such as Melid and Carchemish, as well as in the central Anatolian kingdom of Tabal that...
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Age) (Melid was its main centre) Kammanu (region or country and also post-Hittite Luwian state in the first millennium BC) (its main city was Melid, later...
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