Lukka lands
State | Defunct
1500 BCE to 1175 BCE
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 are never put under permanent Hittite control and are viewed as hostile by the Hittites.It is commonly accepted that the Bronze Age toponym Lukka is cognate with classical Lycia.
Soldiers from the Lukka lands fight on the Hittite side in the famous Battle of Kadesh (ca.
1274 BC) against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses II.
A century later the Lukka have turned against the Hittites.
The Hittite king Suppiluliuma II tries in vain to defeat the Lukka.
They contribute to the collapse of the Hittite empire.The Lukka is are known from ancient Egyptian texts.
They were one of the tribes that constitute the Sea Peoples who invade Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean in the twelfth century BC.
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