- Lukka lands
The Lukka lands are often mentioned in Hittite texts from the second millennium BC. It denotes a region in the southwestern part of
Anatolia . The Lukka lands were never put under permanent Hittite control and were viewed as hostile by the Hittites.The Lukka figure prominently in
Bronze Age texts, including a treaty between the Hittite kingTudhaliya IV and his cousinKurunta . Trevor Bryce notes: [Trevor Bryce (2005) "The Kingdom of the Hittites", [http://books.google.com/books?id=O2VnjMAwNqUC&pg=PA54&dq=lukka&sig=lPpSxJc0_GPkX92TAdcjXczuKJ8#PPA54,M1 p. 54] ]From these texts we can conclude the Lukka, or Lukka lands, referred to a regions extending from the western end of
Pamphylia , throughLycaonia ,Pisidia andLycia .Soldiers from the Lukka lands fought on the Hittite side in the famous
Battle of Kadesh (ca. 1274 BC) against the Egyptian PharaohRamesses II . A century later the Lukka had turned against the Hittites. The Hittite kingSuppiluliuma II tried in vain to defeat the Lukka. They contributed to the collapse of the Hittite empire.The Lukka is also known from ancient Egyptian texts. They were one of the tribes that constituted the
Sea Peoples who invaded Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean in the twelfth century BC.Fact|date=May 2008ee also
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Arzawa
*Assuwa
*History of the Hittites
*Sea Peoples
*Lycaonia Notes
External links
* [http://www.lycianturkey.com/maps.htm Maps of Lycia]
* [http://www.courses.psu.edu/cams/cams400w_aek11/www/lukka.htm The Lukka, at "Sea Peoples and the Philistines on the Web"]
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