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of modern Turkey]] Kussara ( Kuššar) was a Middle kingdom in . The kingdom, though apparently important at one time, is mostly remembered today as the origin of the dynasty that would form the Old Hittite Kingdom.


Location
Kussara is occasionally mentioned (as Ku-ša-ra) in the clay tablets of the Old Assyrian traders in Anatolia, and less often in the early (as KUR URU Ku-uš-ša-ra).
(2025). 9788763536455, Museum Tusculanum Press. .
It has been equated with the modern Turkish city of .Wedderburn, A. (1980). "Towards Ideomatic Reconstruction in the Nilo-Saharan Complex." Nilo-Saharan Proceedings: Proceedings of the First Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Conference, Leiden, The Netherlands, September 8–10, 1980. (2019). Germany: De Gruyter. Massimo Forlanini imprecisely situated it southeast of , but north of , between Hurama and (modern day Gürün). Trevor Bryce imprecisely situated it to "the south-east of the Kizil Irmak basin in the region, on or near one of the main trade routes from Assyria and perhaps in the vicinity of modern Şar (Comana Cappadocia)".


Kussaran kings
and his son Anitta, forerunners of the later Hittite kings, are the only two recorded kings of Kussara. Their exploits are known chiefly from the so-called Anitta Text, one of the earliest inscriptions in the as yet discovered.Gonnet-Bağana, Hatice, (2015). "Anitta, CTH 1-30 (Proclamation of Anitta of Kussar) - CTH 1", Koc Universitesi Digital Collections. Pithana took control over Kanesh (Neša)
(1995). 9780415167635, Routledge. .
and its important trade centrum in roughly 1780 BC. The people later revolted against the rule of his son, Anitta, but Anitta crushed the revolt and made Kanesh his capital. Kussara itself, however, appears to have retained ceremonial importance. Anitta also defeated the polities of and , after which he took the title of .
(2011). 9780195376142, OUP USA. .
Most scholars also accept a further king, , to be a member of the Kussaran dynasty.

It is notable that , recognized as one of the first Hittite kings, referred to himself as "man of Kussara", although his capital (from which he likely took his name) was . Again, Kussara seems even then to have retained some importance, since this was where Hattusili called a council on his own succession.


Economy, language and government
The language or dialect of Kussara is neither found nor described in either the Assyrian or Hittite texts, but from the evidence of Old Assyrian trade tablets, it is known that a palace and a karum (Assyrian trade station) existed in the city.Alwin Kloekhorst, "Kanišite Hittite. The Earliest Attested Record of Indo-European.", (Handbook of Oriental Studies, Section One, Near And Middle East, Volume 132), Leiden: Brill, 2019 ISBN 978-90-04-39791-0 The Kings of Kussara became the Kings of Kanesh in the Karum IB period of Kanesh. Hattusili I and mentioned the origins of the Kings of the land of Hatti as Hattusili I styled himself: "man of Kussara . . . Great King , Hattusili the Great King, King of the land of ."
(2025). 9780810865648, Scarecrow Press.
No other town or land was ever mentioned by a King of Hattusa as the origin of the Kings of Hattusa.

Because the Kings of Kussara and their clan formed the base of the Old Kingdom of the Hittites, the Hittite language (known as 'Nesili' to its speakers after the city of Kanesh or Nesa) was the language of the ruling officials. It is assumed that the language of Kussara was , because if it were not, many more non-Indo-European elements would be expected in its apparent successor, Hittite. concluded in the chapter "Prehistory" of his book The Luwians (2003–17): "Hittite core vocabulary remains Indo-European". The Anitta Text records that when Pithana captured Kanesh, he did no harm to it, but made the inhabitants "his mothers and fathers." Some scholars have taken this unique statement to mean there were cultural and/or ethnic affinities between Kussara and Kanesh.


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