The dating and sequence of the Hittite kings is compiled from fragmentary records, supplemented by the recent find in Hattusa of a cache of more than 3,500 seal impressions giving names and titles and genealogy of Hittite kings. All dates given here are approximate, relying on synchronisms with known chronologies for neighbouring countries and Egypt.
List of Neo-Hittite kings, for the rulers of the Neo-Hittite states, some of whom were direct descendants of the Hittite kings
The rulers of Carchemish in particular presented themselves as successors of the Hittite kings and ruled in northern Syria until defeated by the Assyrians in 717 BC.
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^Jacques Freu and Michel Mazoyer, Les débuts du nouvel empire hittite, Paris, 2007: 311; Amélie Kuhrt, The Ancient Near East c. 3000–330 BC, vol. 1, London, 1995: 230.
^Trevor Bryce, The Kingdom of the Hittites, Oxford, 2005: 122-123.
^Jacques Freu and Michel Mazoyer, Les débuts du nouvel empire hittite, Paris, 2007: 311; Amélie Kuhrt, The Ancient Near East c. 3000–330 BC, vol. 1, London, 1995: 230.
^Jacques Freu and Michel Mazoyer, Les débuts du nouvel empire hittite, Paris, 2007: 311; Amélie Kuhrt, The Ancient Near East c. 3000–330 BC, vol. 1, London, 1995: 230.
^Trevor Bryce, The Kingdom of the Hittites, Oxford, 2005: 122-123.
^Jacques Freu and Michel Mazoyer, Les débuts du nouvel empire hittite, Paris, 2007: 200-201.