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KASSITES , an Elamite tribe who played an important See also:

part in the See also:history of Babylonia. They still inhabited the See also:north-western mountains of See also:Elam, immediately See also:south of Holwan, when See also:Sennacherib attacked them in 702 B.C. They are the Kossaeans of See also:Ptolemy, who divides Susiana between them and the Elymaeans; according to See also:Strabo (xi. 13, 3, 6) they were the neighbours of the Medes. Th. Nbldeke (Gott. G. G., 1874, pp. 173 seq.) has shown that they are the Kissians of the older See also:Greek authors who are identified with the Susians by See also:Aeschylus (Choeph. 424, Pers. 17, 120) and See also:Herodotus (v. 49, 52).

We already hear of them as attacking Babylonia in the gth See also:

year of Samsu-iluna the son of Khammurabi, and about 178o B.C. they overran Babylonia and founded a See also:dynasty there which lasted for 576 years and nine months. In the course of centuries, however, they were absorbed into the Babylonian See also:population; the See also:kings adopted Semitic names and married into the royal See also:family of See also:Assyria. Like the other See also:languages of the non-Semitic tribes of Elam that of the Kassites was agglutinative; a vocabulary of it has been handed down in a See also:cuneiform tablet, as well as a See also:list of Kassite names with their Semitic equivalents. It has no connexion with Indo-See also:European, as has erroneously been supposed. Some of the Kassite deities were introduced into the Babylonian See also:pantheon, and the Kassite tribe of Khabira seems to have settled in the Babylonian See also:plain. See Fr. See also:Delitzsch, See also:Die Sprache der Koss¢er (1884). (A. H. S.) and better known for the See also:defence maintained by See also:Bryennius against See also:Alexis I. in 1084. A See also:Byzantine See also:wall with See also:round towers runs across the See also:peninsula.

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