Hittites years of the Old Hittite Kingdom, can be explained in part by the nature of the Hittite kingship at that time. During the Old Hittite Kingdom period prior to 1400 BC, the king of the Hittites was not viewed by the Hittite citizenry as a "living god", like the Pharaohs of Egypt, but rather as a first among equals. Only in the later period of the Hittite Empire, from 1400 BC until 1200 BC, did the kingship of the Hittites become more centralized and powerful. Also in earlier years the succession was not legally fixed, enabling the "war of the
Eudocia (Cappadocia) Eudocia (Cappadocia) Although William Smith's "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography" (1854) said that the "Synecdemus" of Hierocles mentions four towns in Asia Minor called Eudocia (), including one in Cappadocia, the text of the "Synecdemus" as edited by Gustav Parthey in 1866 mentions no town of that name or of any similar name among the Cappadocian towns. Smith also said that the town had formerly belonged to the Anatolian Theme but Leo VI incorporated it into Cappadocia. The "Synecdemus" was composed, under Justinian (527–565), before 535, three and a half centuries before the time of Leo VI, who reigned