Washukanni

Washukanni (or Waššukanni) was the capital of the Hurrian kingdom of Mitanni, from c. 1500 BC to the 13th century BC. Its precise location is unknown, but it is widely thought to have existed on one of the tributaries of the Khabur River. Some scholars believe it is identical with the later, ancient city of Sikan.^{[citation needed]} Washukanni may be located under the so-far unexcavated mound of Tell el Fakhariya, near Gozan in Syria, to the east of the Euphrates river.^{[citation needed]}

Washukanni (waşuk-kani) (in kurdish xweşik-kanî) means beautiful source/springhead. The kurdish town Sikan (which scholars believe, its Wassukani) is named as Serêkanî or Serêkaniyê in kurdish and it means Headwater.

The city is known to have been sacked by the Hittites under Suppiluliumas I (reigned c.1344–1322 BC) in the first years of his reign, whose treaty inscription relates that he installed a Hurrian vassal king, Shattiwaza. The city was sacked again by the Assyrian king Adad-nirari I around 1290 BC, but very little else is known of its history.