Editing Ephesus (section)

====Late Bronze====
According to [[Hittites|Hittite]] sources, the capital of the kingdom of [[Arzawa]] (another independent state in Western and Southern Anatolia/Asia Minor<ref name="Akurgal">{{cite book| author = Akurgal, Ekrem| author-link = Ekrem Akurgal|title = The Hattian and Hittite Civilizations| page = 111| publisher = Publications of the Republic of Turkey; Ministry of Culture| year = 2001| isbn = 975-17-2756-1}}</ref>) was Apasa (or ''Abasa''), and some scholars suggest that this is the same place the Greeks later called Ephesus.<ref name='BritishMuseum'/><ref>{{cite book|last=Müller-Luckner|first=herausgegeben von Kurt Raaflaub unter Mitarbeit von Elisabeth|title=Anfänge politischen Denkens in der Antike : die nahöstlichen Kulturen und die Griechen|year=1993|publisher=Oldenbourg|location=München|isbn=978-3-486-55993-4|page=117|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NySxd--wwYwC&pg=PA117|edition=[Online-Ausg.].}}{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|editor-last=Waelkens|editor-first=M.|title=Sagalassos|year=2000|publisher=Leuven Univ. Press|location=Leuven|isbn=978-90-5867-079-3|page=476|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zs5xuX231MoC&pg=PA476}}</ref><ref name="Hawkins1998">J. David Hawkins (1998). ‘Tarkasnawa King of Mira: Tarkendemos, Boğazköy Sealings, and Karabel.’ ''Anatolian Studies'' 48:1–31.</ref> In 1954, a burial ground from the [[Mycenaean Greece|Mycenaean]] era (1500–1400&nbsp;BC), which contained ceramic pots, was discovered close to the ruins of the [[basilica of St. John]].<ref name="C. Özgünel">{{cite journal| author=Coskun Özgünel| title=Mykenische Keramik in Anatolien| journal=Asia Minor Studien| year=1996| volume=23}}</ref> This was the period of the [[Mycenaean Greece|Mycenaean]] expansion, when the ''[[Ahhiyawa]]'' began settling in [[Asia Minor]], a process that continued into the 13th century BC. The names ''Apasa'' and ''Ephesus'' appear to be cognate,<ref name="Puhvel1984">Jaan Puhvel (1984).  'Hittite Etymological Dictionary Vol. 1(A)' ''Berlin, New York, Amsterdam: Mouton de Gruyter'' 1984–.</ref> and recently found inscriptions seem to pinpoint the places in the Hittite record.<ref name="Hawkins2009">J.David Hawkins (2009). 'The Arzawa letters in recent perspective' ''British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan 14'' 73–83.</ref><ref name="GarstangandGurney1959">Garstang, J. and O. R. Gurney (1959). 'The geography of the Hittite Empire' ''Occasional Publications of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara 5''London.</ref>