Editing Mitanni (section)

====After the war====
In the capital [[Washukanni]], a new power struggle broke out. The Hittites and the Assyrians supported different pretenders to the throne. Finally a Hittite army conquered the capital Washukanni and installed [[Shattiwaza]], the son of Tushratta, as their vassal king of Mitanni in the late 14th century BC.<ref name="Devecchi2018" >Devecchi, Elena. "Details That Make the Difference: The Akkadian Manuscripts of the ‘Šattiwaza Treaties.’" Die Welt Des Orients, vol. 48, no. 1, 2018, pp. 72–95</ref> The kingdom had by now been reduced to the [[Khabur (Euphrates)|Khabur Valley]]. The Assyrians had not given up their claim on Mitanni, and in the 13th century BC, [[Shalmaneser I]] annexed the kingdom.

The Mitanni dynasty had ruled over the northern [[Tigris–Euphrates river system|Euphrates-Tigris]] region between {{Circa|1600}} and 1350 BC,<ref name="academia.edu">Novák, Mirko, (2013). [https://www.academia.edu/7615265/Upper_Mesopotamia_in_the_Mittani_Period "Upper Mesopotamia in the Mittani Period"], in Archéologie et Histoire de la Syrie I, Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, p. 349.</ref> but succumbed to Hittite and later Assyrian attacks, and Mitanni was reduced to the status of a province of the [[Middle Assyrian Empire]] between {{Circa|1350}} and 1260 BC.<ref name="academia.edu"/>