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Civilization in the Mediterranean collapsed into a period of decentralization, migrations and civil and international warfare after about 1200 BC.
There is nothing to fill the gap until history begins with the classical Greek historian, Herodotus, who mentions them extensively, except legend.
Sufficient gaps in their knowledge exist to cast doubt on the historicity of everything they had to say.
They did not know that Anatolia once spoke languages of the Anatolian language group, or that Lycian was such a language.
Except for a few basic generalities, such as that the Lycians probably fought in the Trojan War, nothing mentioned by the works produced under the name of Homer, or the other poets, or anything said by Herodotus about Lycians prior to his own time, is generally granted any historical validity.
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