Ahhiyawa
Proper noun
Meaning
Ahhiyawa
(historical) A land mentioned in ancient Hittite texts as lying to the west.
Examples
Atreids in Asia Minor Map showing the Hittite empire and the Ahhiyawa (most probably the Achaeans).
It is possible that the Trojan War was a conflict between the king of Ahhiyawa and the Assuwa confederation.
The identifications of Wilusa with Troy and of the Ahhiyawa with Homer's Achaeans remain somewhat controversial but gained enough popularity during the 1990s to be considered majority opinion.
It has been proposed that Ekwesh of the Egyptian records may relate to Achaea (compared to Hittite Ahhiyawa), whereas Denyen and Tanaju may relate to Classical Greek Danaoi.
His conclusions at the time were challenged by other Hittitologists (i.e. Johannes Friedrich in 1927 and Albrecht Götze in 1930), as well as by Ferdinand Sommer, who published his Die Ahhijava-Urkunden ("The Ahhiyawa Documents") in 1932.