The Assuwa league was a confederation of states in western Anatolia, defeated by the Hittites under Tudhaliya IV around 1250 BC. The league had been formed to oppose the failing Hittite empire. The list of its members contains 22 names, including Luqqa, Lukka, Warsiya, Taruisa, Wilusiya and Karkija (Caria). Anatolia ( Greek: ανατολή anatolē or anatolí, rising of the sun or East; compare Orient and Levant, by popular etymology Turkish Anadolu to ana mother and dolu filled), also called by the Latin name of Asia Minor, is a region of Southwest Asia which corresponds today to the Asian portion of... The Hittites is the conventional English-language term for an ancient people who spoke an Indo-European language and established a kingdom centered in Hattusa (the modern village of Boğazköy in north-central Turkey), through most of the second millennium BC. The Hittite kingdom, which at its height controlled central... Categories: Hittite kings | Historical stubs ... (Redirected from 1250 BC) Centuries: 14th century BC - 13th century BC - 12th century BC Decades: 1300s BC 1290s BC 1280s BC 1270s BC 1260s BC - 1250s BC - 1240s BC 1230s BC 1220s BC 1210s BC 1200s BC Events and Trends September 7, 1251 BC - A solar eclipse at this date... For other uses, see Caria (disambiguation). ...

Some of the identifications of these names are disputed. Wilusiya is commonly identified with Ilios, and Taruisa with the surrounding Troas, and Warsiya may be associated with Lukka (Lycia). However, they do not equate Luqqa with Lukka (Lycia), because that would put the Assuwa league both north and south of Arzawa in southwestern Anatolia. Assuwa appears to lie north of Arzawa, covering the northwestern corner of Anatolia. Homer in the Iliad seems to refer to two Lycias (in 2.876-77, 5.479; Sarpedon is a leader of "distant Lycia" while in 2.824ff. 5.105 Pandarus is another leader of Lycians from around Mount Ida near Troy, so that Lukka vs. Luqqa may find its explanation in these terms. Walls of the excavated city of Troy This article is about the city of Troy / Ilion as described in the works of Homer, and the location of an ancient city associated with it. ... Map of the Troas The Troas (Troad) is an ancient region in the northwestern part of Anatolia, bounded by the Hellespont to the northwest, the Aegean Sea to the west, and separated from the rest of Anatolia by the massif that forms Mount Ida. ... Lycia is a region on the southern coast of Turkey. ... Arzawa is a region or kingdom in what was later to be known as Lydia in Western Anatolia. ... Bust of Homer in the British Museum For other uses, see Homer (disambiguation). ... The Iliad tells the story of the Trojan War and is, along with the Odyssey, one of the two major Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer, a blind Ionian poet. ... In Greek mythology, Sarpedon referred to several different people. ... In Homers Iliad, Pandarus or Pandaros is the son of Lycaon and a famous archer. ... Two sacred mountains are called Mount Ida in Greek mythology, equally named Mount of the Goddess. ...

Assuwa has been suggested as the origin for the name of the continent Asia (Bossert, 1946). World map showing location of Asia Asia is the central and eastern part of the continent of Eurasia, defined by subtracting the European peninsula from Eurasia. ...

References

• Bossert, Helmut T., Asia, Istanbul, 1946.

See also

• Arzawa