Editing Muwatalli II (section)

{{Short description|Hittite king}}
:''See also [[Muwatalli I]]''
{{Infobox person
| name                      =Muwatalli II
| title                     =King of the [[Hittites]]
|other names   =Muwatallis II
| image = Felsrelief-Sirkeli.jpg
| caption = Depiction of Muwatalli II on a relief at [[Sirkeli, Ceyhan|Sirkeli Höyük]]
| predecessor               =[[Mursili II]]
| successor                 =[[Mursili III]]
<!--| religion                  =[[Hittite religion]] -->
| parents                   =[[Mursili II]]<br />Queen [[Gassulawiya]]
| relatives                 =[[Hattusili III]] (brother)<br />[[Tudhaliya IV]] (nephew)
|children=[[Mursili III]]<br />Ulmi-Teshup
|spouse=Tanu-Ḫepa
}}

'''Muwatalli II''' (also '''Muwatallis''', or '''Muwatallish'''; meaning "mighty"<ref>{{cite book |last1=Simon |first1=Z |author1-link=Anatolian Names |editor1-last=Waerzeggers |editor1-first=C |editor2-last=Groß |editor2-first=MM |title=Personal Names in Cuneiform Texts from Babylonia (c. 750-100 BCE): An Introduction |date=2024 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |pages=213-223}}</ref>) was a king of the New Kingdom of the [[Hittite empire]] c. 1295–1282 ([[middle chronology]])<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Kuhrt |first=Amélie |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WhUHEAAAQBAJ |title=The Ancient Near East: c.3000–330 BC, Volume One |date=2020 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-136-75548-4 |pages=230 |language=en}}</ref> and 1295–1272 BC in the [[short chronology]].