Hattusili I makes Hattusa the Hittite capital
The Hittite Old Kingdom begins in a cursed city
Around 1650 BC King Hattusili I ('the man of Hattusa') moved his capital to Hattusa, a city destroyed and cursed by King Anitta about a century earlier. From here the Hittites campaigned in Syria, and his grandson Mursili I sacked Babylon in 1595.