- Based in Anatolia (modern-day Turkey)
- Capital: Hattusa
- Fought Egypt, Assyria and Mitanni
- Ć uppiluliuma I ruled c. 1350 - 1322 BC
- Extended to northern Levant and Mesopotamia (14th century BC)
- Most territory annexed by Assyrian Empire (12th century BC)
- Smaller states survived until annexed by Assyrian Empire (8th century BC)