The Hurrian-ruled kingdom of northern Mesopotamia, Naharin to the Egyptians; a generation earlier Egypt's great-power partner, the alliance sealed by diplomatic marriages under Amenhotep III. Its king Tushratta heads the great-king correspondence of the Amarna Letters; by Tutankhamun's reign the kingdom lay broken by Suppiluliuma I's Hittites.
War, diplomacy, and empire
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