Arzawa
Proper noun
Meaning
Arzawa
(historical) A region and a political entity in western Anatolia in the second half of the 2nd millennium BC.
Examples
According to Hittite sources, the capital of the Kingdom of Arzawa (another independent state in Western and Southern Anatolia/Asia Minor citation ) was Apasa (or Abasa).
The cultural ancestors appear to have been associated with or part of the Luwian political entity of Arzawa ; yet the Lydian language is not part of the Luwian subgroup (as are Carian and Lycian ).
Arzawa has been associated with the much more obscure Assuwa generally located to its north.
In Hittite times, the name for the region had been Arzawa ; it was a Luwian-speaking area.
This terminology was replaced by the names Arzawa and Kizzuwatna with the rise of those kingdoms.