Mitanni Kingdom

Overview

Mitanni or Mittani, earlier called Ḫabigalbat in old Babylonian texts, c. 1600 BC; Ḫanigalbat or Ḫani-Rabbat in Assyrian records, or Naharin in Egyptian and some Akkadian texts, was a Hurrian-speaking state in northern Syria and southeast Anatolia with Indo-Aryan linguistic and political influences. Since no histories, royal annals or chronicles have yet been found in its excavated sites, knowledge about Mitanni is sparse compared to the other powers in the area, and dependent on what its neighbours commented in their texts.

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Borders & accuracy

A paramount-chiefdom-style polity with tributary peripheries; exact extent is contested.

• SOURCEhand-crafted from scholarly atlases
• DETAILhand-traced-from:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitanni
• SNAPSHOT1430 BCE
• POLITY TYPEtributary

Wars of this empire5

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

• Battle of Megiddo (15th century BCE)1457 BCE
  World-changing
• Egyptian-Mitanni Wars1480–1400 BCE
  Significant
• Thutmose III's Northern Campaigns (Campaigns 10-13)1468–1465 BCE
  Significant
• Tushratta's Mitanni Campaigns1380–1360 BCE
  Significant
• Hittite-Amarna Correspondence Period1380–1350 BCE
  Significant