• Mursili II (also spelled Mursilis II) was a king of the Hittite Empire (New kingdom) c. 1330–1295 BC (middle chronology) or 1321–1295 BC (short chronology)...
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  • queen Kali. Mursili II, (also spelled Mursilis II) was a king of the Hittite Empire (New kingdom) ca. 1321–1295 BC (short chronology). Mursili III, also...
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  • interlude between those of his father Šuppiluliuma I and younger brother Muršili II. Arnuwanda was the eldest surviving son of the Hittite great king Šuppiluliuma...
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  • He was the eldest surviving son of Muwatalli II. He was a grandson of Muršili II. During his reign, Muršili III reverted the capital from Tarhuntassa (as...
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    identification for Šuppiluliuma II's enemy in Tarḫuntašša, if the Muršili in question could be equated with Muršili III (Urḫi-Teššub). Reasserting Hittite...
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    Ḫattušili III indicates that his nephew and predecessor Muršili III reigned for 7 years. A text of Muršili II records an omen of the sun at the beginning of the...
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  • Mursili I (also known as Mursilis; sometimes transcribed as Murshili) was a king of the Hittites c. 1620-1590 BC, as per the middle chronology, the most...
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    Šuppiluliuma's ruthlessness was blamed for this evil by his own son, Muršili II. Šuppiluliuma's origins are unclear. A statement in the genealogy of his...
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    Ḫattušili I (redirect from Labarna II)
    lack of evidence. Ḫattušili's wife was named Kadduši and his grandson was Muršili I, who succeeded him, having been chosen as heir instead of Ḫattušili's...
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    Urḫi-Teššup, whose throne name was Muršili (III). He became the king of Hatti after the death of his father Muwatalli II, but was overthrown 7 years later...
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  • the Hayasans had a peoples' assembly or council of elders. Similarly, Mursili II later conducted negotiations with "the elders" of Azzi. The nearby land...
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  • sets of kings on both sides, discerns three Tudḫaliyas as ancestors of Muršili II on his “cruciform seal,” and argues that the Tudḫaliyas who engaged in...
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    Arnuwanda II, had also succumbed to tularemia. Muršili had ascended to the throne because he was the last surviving son of Šuppiluliuma. Muršili believed...
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  • King Šuppiluliuma I—younger than the heir Arnuwanda II, but older than the eventual successor Muršili II and probably older than the ill-fated Zannanza too...
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  • later in his reign. A fragmentary text from the reign of Ḫenti's son Muršili II makes reference to his father, mother, and a banishment of someone to...
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  • king Muršili II and his nephew Talmi-Šarruma, the king of Aleppo. Following references to the Hittite kings Ḫattušili I defeating, and Muršili I and...
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    of kings on both sides, discerns three Tudḫaliyas as predecessors of Muršili II on his "cruciform seal," and argues that the Tudḫaliyas who engaged in...
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    Hattusili III was born the youngest of four children to the Hittite king Mursili II and queen Gassulawiya. According to Hattusili III himself, he was an ill...
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    Hittites lay the Hurrian empire of Mitanni. At its peak during the reign of Muršili II, the Hittite empire stretched from Arzawa in the west to Mitanni in the...
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    The possible solar eclipse mentioned in a text dating to the reign of Muršili II could be of great importance for the absolute chronology of the Hittite...
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  • vassal states reached its peak under the reigns of Šuppiluliuma I and Muršili II in the 14th century BC. The relationships between the Hittites and their...
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    (2020): "...Recently, Forlanini proposed that the text’s author was not Muršili I but rather Ḫattušili I, who tells about the times of his predecessor...
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    1998 Gautschy, R., "Remarks Concerning the Alleged Solar Eclipse of Muršili II.", Altorientalische Forschungen, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 23–29, 2017. doi:10...
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    Routledge. pp. 14, 103. Harry A. Hoffner Jr. (Jan–Mar 1983). "A Prayer of Muršili II about His Stepmother". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 103 (1):...
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    sister, Maathorneferure, who served as Great Royal Wife to Pharaoh Ramesses II of Egypt. The Hittite Empire covered large parts of Anatolia and Syria. Climate...
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  • lost all of its conquests, made in the former era under Hattusili I and Mursili I – to Arzawa in the West, Mitanni in the East, the Kaskians in the North...
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    area was still referred to as 'the land of Pala" as late as the reign of Muršili II (1330–1295 BCE). It is likely that the Palaic peoples disappeared after...
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    conclusion of the Arzawa campaign by Šuppiluliuma's son and successor Muršili II, Mašḫuiluwa was installed in Mira as a vassal ruler and granted 600 men...
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    demanded his extradition, Ramesses II denied any knowledge of his wherabouts. When Ḫattušili insisted that Muršili was in Egypt, Ramesses's response suggested...
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  • his father as king of Assyria. June 24 1312 BC (or April 13 1308 BC) – Mursili II launches a campaign against the Kingdom of Azzi-Hayasa. Ramesses I, pharaoh...
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