Editing Lycia (section)

===Bronze Age===
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During the [[Late Bronze Age]], Lycia was part of the ''Lukka lands'' known from [[Hittite language|Hittite]] and [[Egyptian language|ancient Egyptian]] records. The toponyms Lukka and Lycia are believed to be cognate, as are the names of numerous Lukkan and Lycian settlements.<ref>[[Trevor Bryce]] (2005) ''The Kingdom of the Hittites'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=O2VnjMAwNqUC&pg=PA54&dq=lukka&sig=lPpSxJc0_GPkX92TAdcjXczuKJ8#PPA54,M1 p. 54]</ref><ref>Ilya Yakubovich (2010) ''Sociolinguistics of the Luvian Language'', Leiden: Brill, p. 134</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Bryce|first=Trevor|title=The Trojans and their Neighbours|year=2005 |publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-415-34959-8|pages=81–82}}</ref>

The Lukka lands were never a unified kingdom, instead having a decentralized political structure.
Archaeological remains of the Lukka people are sparse. The Lukka people were famously fractious, with Hittite and Egyptian records describing them as raiders, rebels, and pirates. 
Lukka people fought against the Hittites as part of the [[Assuwa|Assuwa confederation]], later fought for the Hittites in the [[Battle of Kadesh]], and are listed among the groups known to modern scholars as the [[Sea People]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Beckman |first1=Gary|last2=Bryce|first2=Trevor|last3=Cline|first3=Eric|year=2012 |title=The Ahhiyawa Texts|publisher=Brill|page=99|isbn=978-1589832688}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Bryce|first=Trevor|title=The Trojans and their Neighbours|year=2005 |publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-415-34959-8|pages=82, 148–149}}</ref><ref>Bryce 2005, p. 336; Yakubovich 2010, p. 134</ref>