Complex questions related to etymology of endonymic terms for Hattians, their land, language and capital city (Hatti, Hattili, Hattush) are debated among scholars. Later conquerors (Hittites) did not change the name of the city

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Several archeological sites in central Anatolia, dating from the Early Bronze Age(second half of the 3rd millennium BC) are attributed to ancient

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Hattians spoke Hattian language, a non-Indo-European and non-Semitic language of uncertain affiliation. Hattian is now believed by some scholars to be related to the

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Hattian religion traces back to the Stone Age. It involved worship of the earth, which is personified as a mother goddess; the Hattians honored the mother goddess to ensure their crops and their own well-being. The Hattian pantheon of gods included the storm-god

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• Hattian language

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• Akurgal, Ekrem (2001). The Hattian and Hittite Civilizations. Ankara: Ministry of Culture.
• Barjamovic, Gojko (2011). A Historical Geography of Anatolia in the Old Assyrian Colony Period.

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Some scholars thought that Hattians and Hittites had perhaps different personal characteristics, though most Anatolian societies in the Bronze Age were multi-lingual. Egyptian depictions of the Battle of Kadeshreportedly show long-nosed Hattian soldiers, while

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