State · 1600 – 1151 BCE

Hittites

A state of 1600 – 1151 BCE — 449 years in the Middle East and North Africa. The atlas records 2 things within it — wars and battles 2. Its line of rulers holds 4 people.

Wikidata dates it 1500 to 1201 BCE, years the borders dataset never draws it in; the borders dataset maps it from 1600 BCE to 1151 BCE, and those are the years drawn here.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 449 years; 1600 BCE – 1151 BCE
Rulers: 4; the King of the Hittites
Most ground: 321,400 km²; in 1300 BCE
Within it: 2; recorded rows

Map: Hittites in 1300 BCE, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Hittites in 1300 BCE, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 321,400 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Hittites in 1600 BCE, first mapped — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Hittites in 1300 BCE, at its largest — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

Rulers

Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.

killed, executed or dead in battleending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Mursili I	1620 BCE – 1590 BCE	30 years	killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Ḫattušili III	1275 BCE – 1245 BCE	30 years	ending not on record
Tudhaliya IV	1215 BCE – 1215 BCE	under a year	ending not on record	child
Suppiluliuma II	1207 BCE – 1178 BCE	29 years	ending not on record	child

4 rulers, 4 with terms dated as terms, covering 1620 BCE – 1178 BCE. Median reign 29.5 years. 1 of 3 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

58,800 km² in 1600 BCE, 300,600 km² in 1151 BCE; at its largest 321,400 km² in 1300 BCE. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1300 BCE – 1201 BCE2 rows · 2 wars and battles

Battle of Kadesh · battle · 1274 BCE
Siege of Dapur · battle · 1271 BCE

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood449 years
stood longer than 83% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held321,400 km²
held more ground at its peak than 67% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median30 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 83% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record4
has more rulers on record than 58% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1645 BCE – 1106 BCE, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1300 BCE, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q5406 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.