Luwians: the first inhabitants of western Anatolia and possibly the Aegean region
Türkçesi Luviler. Batı Anadolu'nun ve muhtemelen Ege Denizi bölgesinin ilk sakinleri The Hellenes were certainly neither the first Anatolians nor the first group in the region. Even when one limits the issue with the coast of western Anatolia, we know that the place they came to and settled down later was not empty. In fact, the discourse of Anatolians versus Hellenes owes its existence to this information. We also have an idea, to a certain extent, about how to name these groups that were in this region right before the Greeks. They go by the name Luwians. It seems that the Luwians had settled in this land, region, before the Greeks did. Of course, one needs to ask which Hellenes these were. Are we talking here about only the Ionians, Dorians and Aeolians or are we going as far back as the first Greeks, those who we today call Mycenaeans but they appear as Ahhiyawans, Argives, Achaeans and Danaois in history? However, in both cases, one comes across the ...