The word 'war' comes to English from the old High German language word Werran (to confuse or to cause confusion) through the Old English Werre (meaning the same), and is a state of open and usually declared armed conflict between political entities such as sovereign states or between rival political or social factions within the same state.
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1307 BCE - 1275 BCEReign of Assyrian King Adad Nirari I, Mitanni becomes vassal state.