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Some of the identifications of these names are disputed.

Wilusiya is commonly identified with Ilion, and Taruisa with the surrounding Troad, and Warsiya may be associated with Lukka ( Lycia ).

However, identification of uqqa with later-attested Lukka ( Lycia ) is problematic, because that would put the Assuwa league both north and south of Arzawa in southwestern Anatolia.

Assuwa appears to lie north of Arzawa, covering the northwestern corner of Anatolia.

Homer in the Iliad seems to refer to two Lycias ( in 2. 876-77, 5. 479 ; Sarpedon is a leader of " distant Lycia " while in 2. 824ff.

5. 105 Pandarus is another leader of Lycians from around Mount Ida near Troy, so that Lukka vs. [...] uqqa may find its explanation in these terms.

However, the Assuwa League included Karkija ( Caria ), in southwest Anatolia, south of even the proposed Lukka ( Lycia ).

So, since also Assuwa was only a confederate league, it could easily have included a wide-ranging array of anti-Hittite minor powers, across the region.