Where did the hittites settle?
The Hittites established the capital of their empire at Hattusa
around 1600 BCE. This is in modern-day Turkey. The Hittite kingdom
grew throughout the next 400 years to encompass areas of Asia
Minor/Anatolia, the northern Levant, and Upper Mesopotamia.
Anatolia makes up the westernmost portion of Asia which makes up
most of modern-day Turkey. The Levant is an area that consists of
southern Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and
Syria. Upper Mesopotamia is located in modern-day southeastern
Turkey, northwestern Iraq, and northeastern Syria.