Šuppiluliuma I

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Šuppiluliuma I (died c. 1322 BC), also Suppiluliuma () or Suppiluliumas (), was an ancient Hittite king (r. c. 1350–1322 BC). Even before assuming the throne, Šuppiluliuma distinguished himself as a military commander by protecting and reclaiming Hittite territories after a period of foreign attacks. Once becoming king he continued his program of consolidation and expansion, both in Anatolia and Syria, with a great deal of success. Victories over a major rival, the Upper-Mesopotamian kingdom of Mittani, led to the extension of Hittite authority over a bevy of petty kingdoms in northern Syria, the installation of the Hittite king's younger sons as local viceroys at Aleppo and Carchemish, and the rump of the Mittanian state becoming, effectively, a dependency of the Hittite Kingdom. Relations with Egypt vacillated between friendship and hostility, eventually culminating in the Zannanza Affair in which Šuppiluliuma was persuaded to send one of his sons to marry the widowed queen of Egypt and...

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