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 Mitanni - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Its centre was in the Khabur valley, with two capitals: Taidu or Taite, and Washshukanni, called Ushshukana in Assyrian sources.
This seems to have turned the mood against Shuttarna; perhaps the majority of the inhabitants of Washshukanni decided they were better off with the Hittite Empire than with their former subjects.
Piyashshili and Shattiwaza marched on Washshukanni, and the cities of Harran and Pakarripa seem to have surrendered to them.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Mitanni   (4674 words)

  
 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Mitanni   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Its centre was in the Khabur river valley, with two capitals: Taite and Washshukanni, called Taidu and Ushshukana respectively in Assyrian sources.
Tell Sabi Abyad, seat of the Assyrian government in the times of Shalmaneser, was deserted sometime between 1200 and 1150 B.C. In the time of Assur-nirari III, the Mushku and other tribes invaded Hanilgalbat and it was lost to Assyrian rule.
Within a few centuries of the fall of Washshukanni to Assyria, Mitanni became fully Aramaized, and use of the Hurrian language began to be discouraged throughout the Assyrian Empire.
www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Mitanni   (4681 words)

  
 Hurrians - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
There was no single Hurrian Empire, but by 1540-1520 BC a number of Hurrian-dominated states had been established in northern Mesopotamia, centered on the upper Tigris River to the north of Assyria.
By 1530 BC the state of Mitanni, still with a mostly-Hurrian population and foreign-named aristocracy, was founded between the Euphrates and Balikh rivers with its capital at Washshukanni (thought to have been in northern Syria).
Mitanni rapidly became the centre of Hurrian power and culture, and soon dominated central Mesopotamia and the Upper Tigris, including Assyria.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Hurrians   (1061 words)

  
 Tushratta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
All the people whom I released rejoined their peoples and Hatti incorporated their territories," Suppiluliuma later boasted.
The Hittite army then marched through various districts towards the Hanilgalbat capital of Washshukanni.
Suppiluliumas claims to have plundered the district and to have brought loot, captives, cattle, sheep and horses back to Hatti.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tushratta   (636 words)

  
 HAMOUKAR - EARLY CITY IN NORTHEASTERN SYRIA
That position must have had a great deal to do with its size and function at various times in the past.
The site was noticed by a number of archaeologists in the 1920s and 1930s, and some proposed that it might be Washshukanni, the still-unlocated capital of the Mitanni empire (c.
If the people who proposed that identification had examined the pot sherds on the surface of the tell, they would not have made it.
oi.uchicago.edu /OI/PROJ/HAM/NN_Sum00/NN_Sum00.html   (5139 words)

  
 Warfare overview
Again we performed the necessary rituals of purification, although with more need this time, and entered the Hurri lands to meet the enemy.
The Assyrian invader was spotted advancing along a road to Washshukanni and we took positions to block them and precipitate a battle for the Hurri lands.
In the dry heat of the autumn I determined that the rebels would need to follow a river to ensure that they had drinking water.
pages.eidosnet.co.uk /~nikgaukroger/battles/warfare/warfare.htm   (1578 words)

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