The Assuwa league was a confederation of states in western
Anatolia, defeated by the
Hittites under an earlier Tudhaliya I around
1400 BC. The league formed to oppose the Hittite empire. The list of its members contains 22 names, including [...]uqqa, Warsiya, Taruisa,
Wilusiya and Karkija (
Caria).Some of the identifications of these names are disputed. Wilusiya is commonly identified with
Ilion, and Taruisa with the surrounding
Troad, and Warsiya may be associated with Lukka (
Lycia). However, identification of [..]uqqa with later-attested Lukka (Lycia) is problematic, 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. [...]uqqa may find its explanation in these terms.
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