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Who are the Germans?
developed by the Assyrians. Interestingly enough, the Romans, who may have realized this, called the Hittite capital
city 'Ninus Vetus', meaning 'The Old Nineveh' (Nineveh was the Assyrian capital). lxiv So inter-related had the
Assyrians and Hittites become, that according to Luckenbill's Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia, one
Assyrian document states thus of the Hittites: "As Assyrians I counted them." lxiv
One of their cities was named Hattusas, after them. Another of their cities was "the city of Kussar" lxiv and their
earliest kings became known as the "kings of Kussar" or "Kussara", perhaps becoming the origins of, or an origin of,
the word "Kaiser"!
During the reign of Mursilis II, Cilicia became a Hittite province (Ca. 1339-1306 B.C.). lxiv Later, the Assyrian
empire stretched into and absorbed the Hittite colonies and cities of Cilicia. One such city was Germanicopolis,
which means "city of the Germans." Lempriere’s Classical Dictionary refers to this city:
Germanicopolis, a city of Asia Minor, near the Hellespont. . .[but Pliny], says, that it was in Cilicia. lxiv
He also mentions another city, "Germanicia. . .or Germanicea, a city of Comagene, now Adate." lxiv Where was
Comagene? Lempriere explains:
Comagene, one of the five districts into which Syria was divided. It was near Cilicia, extending towards the
east, as far
as the Euphrates. lxiv
Lempriere refers to yet another city with "German" as part of its name "Germanopolis, a city of Paphlagonia, now
Ginopoli." lxiv
Ammianus Marcellinus tells us that Germanicopolis was in Cilicia. lxiv In a note the translators state that
"Germanicopolis was the principal city of the free Isaurians." lxiv To the north of Cilicia, near Cappadocia, lay a
region named Cataonialxiv which may be a derivation of Catti (an alternative spelling of Hatti). Like the Assyrians,
the Hittites were great iron-mongers. They discovered a practical technique for iron smeltinglxiv which placed them
ahead of all their neighbors in the industrial use of iron in the 14th century B.C. They are also connected by
archaeologists to the barrows of the Black Sea and Don which contain iron battle-axes and ornamental vases with
cord impressions like those of Thuringia in Germany. lxiv The battle-axe/corded culture were possibly early colonists
of the Hittites in Germany who had left the fold somewhere around the Caucasus region.
Artifacts of a similar nature found on the northern slopes of the Caucasus are the "counterpart" of those discovered in
northern Syrialxiv where the Hittites fled when their empire fell apart. Famous historian Gordon Childe states that
this type of battle- axe may be traced back from Central Europe to the Nordics of the Caucasus region and from
thence to Mesopotamia. These battle-axe Nordics of Europe, he claims, came from the southeastlxiv — the Caucasus
region! The iron crosslxiv and the Swastika sun-cross, both Indo-European emblems, featured very prominently in
Hittite art and daily life. lxiv The double-headed eagle, another Indo- European or Aryan symbol, featured
prominently too. lxiv The Hittites were famous for their double-headed eagle symbol: it is found in several places
including on the back of a sphinx at Alaja Huyuk in Turkey, and among the sculptures of Yazilikaya. Later, the
Assyrians incorporated this symbol, using it as a sign of their solar god, Ashur. lxiv
After being swamped by the Sea Peoples, the Hittites poured into Northern Syria establishing city-states, where their
culture became confused or merged with that of the Aramaeans and the Assyrians. The Assyrians then called this
area "the land of Hatti." Carchemish then became their most important centre. lxiv
The Assyrians decided to absorb them into their empire; Sargon II finally captured the last neo-Hittite king, Pisiris,
and the city of Carchemish (717 B.C. (Isaiah 10:9)). lxiv They were thus absorbed into the Assyrian Empire and
Carchemish became the headquarters of an Assyrian province. lxiv To historians, the Hittite race simply
"vanished" lxiv though how could they have? If they did not simply "vanish”, then what became of them?
After the Assyrians conquered the neo-Hittite city-states of northern Syria, they called themselves "Khatti-sars",
meaning "Kaisers of Hatti" (or "Shah", "Czar", "Tsar," rulers over the Hittites"), and northern Syria "the land of
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