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Revision as of 09:47, 8 May 2002 by Benwbrum (talk | contribs) (Fleshed out stub)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)The Hurrians were a people of the Ancient Near East inhabiting what is now northern Syria and southeastern Turkey. They spoke a language unrelated to neighboring Semitic or Indo-European languages.
Hurrian speakers formed the majority population of the kingdom of the Mitanni, though they appear to have been governed by a class of foreign nobility.