It is the aim of the study to examine the political and administrative structures of the
civilizations that reigned over the Anatolian territory from the Hittites to the Roman Empire.
Within the scope of this study, Hittites, Urartians, Phrygians, Lydians, Ionians, Persians,
Lycians and Hellenistic Period civilizations have been researched by means of literature
scanning and content analysis. It
... [Show full abstract] has been observed that the political structures in the Anatolian
civilizations were usually based on hereditary monarchy. It has been determined that starting
from the Hittites period, there was a bureaucratic structuring, consisting of public servants for
palace services and some professions. When administrative structures of the civilizations were
reviewed, it has been observed that there had been different types of states such as federation,
confederation, regional and unitary-characterized states. It has been concluded that these
differences were resulted from whether the populations which established the civilizations had
been from Anatolia or not, and the political complexity in the territory, and foreign threats and
geographical elements.