But the fact that Thothmes III.

in the century before Moses calls the Hittite land of the north "the Greater," is the best proof we can have that there was a Hittite colony elsewhere, which was well known to the Egyptian scribes.

The "Greater" implies the Less, and the only Lesser Hittite land with which we are acquainted is that of which the Book of Genesis speaks.
So far as we can judge from the evidence of proper names, the Hittites belonged to a race which was spread from the Halys in Asia Minor to the shores of Lake Urumiyeh.

The early inhabitants of Armenia, who have left us inscriptions in the cuneiform character, also belonged to it.

So also did the people of Comagene, and it seems probable that the ruling class in northern Mesopotamia did the same.