Ullama
Ullama (also Ulama) was a city settlement whose location is believed to be near Aksaray or Acemhöyük in Turkey , the city was founded in the 18th century BC. Destroyed by the Hittite king Anitta , who also burned Ḫattuša . He cursed the cities for being overgrown with weeds and never to be colonized again. No new settlements are known of Ullama, while Ḫattuša later became the capital of the Hittite Empire.
literature
- Horst Klengel : History of the Hittite Empire. Leiden, Cologne 1998, ISBN 90-04-10201-9 ( Handbook of Oriental Studies : Dept. 1, The Near and Middle East; Vol. 34)
- Erich Neu: The Anitta text . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1974, pp. 10–11, ISBN 3-447-01571-3 (studies on the Boğazköy texts; H. 18)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Volkert Haas : History of the Hittite religion. Leiden, Cologne 1994, p. 540 online , ISBN 90-04-09799-6 (Handbook of Oriental Studies: Dept. 1, The Near and Middle East; Vol. 15)