Native Name: | Malizi |
Conventional Long Name: | Kammanu |
Common Name: | Kammanu |
Era: | Iron Age |
Government Type: | Monarchy |
Year Start: | c. 1200 |
Year End: | 712 BC |
P1: | Hittite empire |
Flag P1: | Hittite KingdomsecXIV.png |
S1: | Neo-Assyrian Empire |
Flag S1: | Map of Assyria.png |
Image Map Caption: | Kammanu and its capital Melid/Milid among the Neo-Hittite states |
Capital: | Melid |
Common Languages: | Hieroglyphic Luwian |
Today: | Turkey |
Kammanu was a Luwian speaking Neo-Hittite state in a plateau (Malatya Plain) to the north of the Taurus Mountains and to the west of Euphrates river in the late 2nd millennium BC, formed from part of Kizzuwatna after the collapse of the Hittite Empire.[1] Its principal city was Melid.[2]