Plusieurs Urrita

• Preferred Name: Plusieurs Urrita
  
• Gender: M
  
• FSID: GS3R-55V
  
• Death: Y
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  The Kingdom of Mitanni, known to the people of the land, and the Assyrians, as Hanigalbat and to the Egyptians as Naharin and Metani, once stretched from present-day northern Iraq, down through Syria and into Turkey and was among the greatest nations of its time, though today it is largely forgotten.
  
  Few records of the people themselves exist, but correspondence between kings of Mitanni and those of Assyria and Egypt (the Amarna Letters) as well as the world's oldest horse-training manual, and a treaty between the Mitanni and Hittites, give evidence of a prosperous nation which thrived between 1500 and 1240 BCE. In the year 1350 BCE, Mitanni was powerful enough to be included in the Great Powers Club along with Egypt, the Kingdom of the Hatti, Babylonia, and Assyria.
  
  Beginning in the 14th century BCE, however, Assyrian incursions weakened the Mitanni kingdom as the Assyrian king Ashur-Uballit I (r. 1365-1330 BCE) annexed significant territories. Disputes of succession among Mitanni royalty added to the kingdom's difficulties, and this lack of unity made Mitanni easy prey for the Hittites under their king Suppiluliuma I (r. c. 1344-1322 BCE) who deported large segments of the population and replaced them with Hittites.
  
  The Assyrian king Adad Nirari I (r. c. 1307-1275 BCE) took the region and, again, deported segments of the population, replacing them with Assyrian subjects. His son and successor, Shalmaneser I, completed the conquest of Mitanni c. 1250 BCE, and his son, Tukulti-Ninurta I (r. c. 1244-1208 BCE), defeated the Hittites at the Battle of Nihriya c. 1245 BCE, eliminating them as a power in the region and obliterating the now greatly reduced Kingdom of Mitanni, which then became part of the Assyrian Empire.