Arzawa in the second half of the second millenium BC (roughly from late 15th century until the beginning of the 12th century) was the name of a region and a kingdom in Western Anatolia, likely to have extended alongside a belt from the Lakes Region in southwestern Anatolia until the Aegean coast and central part of which was later to become known as Lydia. Arzawa was the western neighbor and sometimes vassal of the Middle and New Hittite Kingdoms, and possibly bordered on the much more obscure… (More on Arzawa)