Telipinu

Telipinu
King of the Hittites
Reignc.1525–1500 BC
PredecessorHuzziya I
SuccessorTahurwaili
SpouseIštapariya
IssueHarapšeki

Telipinu was the last king of the Hittites Old Kingdom, reigning c.1525–1500 BC in middle chronology. At the beginning of his reign, the Hittite Empire had contracted to its core territories, having long since lost all of its conquests, made in the former era under Hattusili I and Mursili I – to Arzawa in the West, Mitanni in the East, the Kaskians in the North, and Kizzuwatna in the South.