Siege of Wilusa

The Siege of Wilusa took place after a series of short skirmishes between the Hittites and the Mycenaeans and their puppet states of Masa and Wilusa during the Great Powers' War. The Hittites managed to defeat the Mycenaeans and quickly overrun their positions, leading to the start of the siege at the beginning of 72 AEE.
While the city resisted the Hittites for a few months, it eventually fell and much of it was destroyed. The king of Wilusa Eetion II was killed defending the city, along with thousands of other soldiers, but a significant portion of the Mycenaean army there and many civilians managed to evacuate with the help of the Mycenaean navy to the other side of the Aegean Sea. 
The fall of Wilusa led to a complete Hittite occupation of the puppet kingdom - the territory of which was transferred to their own puppet of Masa - and the end of its existence. This allowed the Hittites and their subjects to fully focus on the remaining Mycenaean holdings in Anatolia, those being of the puppet Kingdom of Ahhiyawa.
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