Some of the last texts referring to Alashiya are from the Hittite Empire ( based in modern Turkey ) and boast of quelling Alashiya by force.
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Toward the end of the Hittite empire, Suppiluliuma II recorded in a Hieroglyphic Luwian inscription that Hatti had attacked and sacked the city of Tarhuntassa.
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However, with the ascent of the Hittite empire, Mitanni and Egypt made an alliance to protect their mutual interests from the threat of Hittite domination.
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By 1500 BC, the region had fallen under the influence of the Central Anatolian Hittite Empire; several localities near 0zmir are mentioned in their records.
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Royal seals were frequently used in the Hittite Empire and Hurrian regions in northern Syria to demonstrate the king's power in Idrimi's time.
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According to the Hittite inscriptions, it appears that the Ahhiya were a powerful empire, at the same scale as contemporary Assyria and the Hittite Empire.
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From 1550 until 1100, much of the Levant was conquered by Egypt, which in the latter half of this period contested Syria with the Hittite Empire.
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Only in the later period of the Hittite Empire, from 1400 BC until 1200 BC, did the kingship of the Hittites become more centralized and powerful.
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Although the Hittite empire was composed of people from many diverse ethnic and linguistic backgrounds, the Hittite language was used in most of their secular written texts.
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The most important finds discovered so far are an official building with an archive of cuneiform tablets dating to the Hittite empire, and a large store house.
