Assuwa
Assuwa (Hittite: πΈππΏ, romanized: aΕ‘-Ε‘u-wa; Mycenaean Greek: ππ―πΉπ, romanized: a-si-wi-ja) was a confederation of 22 states in western Anatolia around 1400 BC. The confederation formed to oppose the Hittite Empire, but was defeated under Tudhaliya I/II. The name was recorded in various centres in Mycenaean Greece as Asiwia, which later acquired the form Asia. == Name == Assuwa has been identified in Egyptian records as isy and a-si-ja and in the contemporary Greek Linear B script with the demonym a-si-ja.