Huzziya was the last recorded king of
Zalpuwa. He was captured by
Anitta the
Hittite king of
Kussara
Kussara (''Kuššar'') was a Middle Bronze Age kingdom in Anatolia. 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 occasion ...
. Anitta had been confronted with what appears to have been a military alliance of states stretching southwards from Zalpa, an alliance in which
Piyusti, the king of Hatti, and Huzziya, the king of Zalpa, played leading roles.
Biography
Huzziya seems to have become a vassal of the Hittite king Anitta, as Anitta claimed to have retrieved the god of
Neša from Zalpuwa and returned it to Neša, before Huzziya revolted and participated in a grand coalition against Anitta's forces. He is attested for in the Anitta Text, which records, “…all the lands from Zalpuwa by the Sea. Formerly Uḫna, King of Zalpuwa, carried off our god from Neša to Zalpuwa. Later I, Anitta, Great King, carried back our god from Zalpuwa to Neša. I brought Ḫuzziya, King of Zalpuwa, alive to Neša. Anitta triumphantly declared that he had made “the sea of Zalpuwa (the
Black Sea
The Black Sea is a marginal sea, marginal Mediterranean sea (oceanography), mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. It is bound ...
) my boundary
o the north”
Huzziya may have been an ancestor and possibly grandfather of Huzziya I, Hittite king of the Old Kingdom (c. 1530–1525 BC).
References
Kings of Zalpuwa
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