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Hittite spellings are orally acquired corruptions of the Greek.in other words the Hittites heard the Greeks saying them and wrote down what the thought they heard.
Hittite : Greek
Wilusa = Mysia
Lukka = Lykia
Milawata = Millito(s)
Apasa = Epheso(s)
Ahhiyawa = Ahaiwoi
Arzawa = Klazom(enae)
Alasya = Karpasia (in Cyprus)
Kaska = Thermiskyra
Tarhuntassa = Telmissus
Kizzuwadna = Kindos (river)
Milawanda was Millitus which was a Greek city in Asia-Minor next to Caria in the Greek province of Lycia which is known to the Hittites as Lukka and was said by them to be a land of the Achaeans/Ahhiyawa.
The Minoan community, in Millitus was the greatest outside Crete.
Wilusa was Mysia another Independent state. It’s king Alexandros is mentioned in the Hittite texts as Alaksandu. In the "Muwatalli Treaty", Appolon is the God of Wilusa! His name was clumsily rendered by Apaliuna in Hittite.
Ekwesh was an Egyptians term for Achaeans and the Hittite term was Ahhiyawa which is a crude attempt to write the Homeric name Achaiwoi in Hittite cuneiform. The Hittites recognised the kings of the Achaeans as Great Kings.
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