What Does Mitannian Mean?
Mitanni, Also Called Hanigalbat or Hani-Rabbat in Assyrian or Naharin in Egyptian Texts, Was a Hurrian-Speaking State in Northern Syria and Southeast Anatolia...
Mitanni, also called Hanigalbat or Hani-Rabbat in Assyrian or Naharin in Egyptian texts, was a Hurrian-speaking state in northern Syria and southeast Anatolia.
What does Mitanni kingdom mean?
1a : an ancient Subaraean people with an Indo-Iranian ruling class having a kingdom in northern Mesopotamia that was dominant in Mesopotamia and northern Syria from the end of the 15th to the middle of the 14th century b.c.
Where did the Mitanni come from?
Mitanni, Indo-Iranian empire centred in northern Mesopotamia that flourished from about 1500 to about 1360 bc. At its height the empire extended from Kirkūk (ancient Arrapkha) and the Zagros Mountains in the east through Assyria to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.