An ancient region or territory in southwestern Anatolia (modern-day Turkey), important in Bronze Age history.
From Hittite/Luwian sources; the name appears in ancient Near Eastern inscriptions referring to a geographical area. Etymology uncertain but likely pre-Indo-European.
Arzan was so strategically important in the Bronze Age that when the Hittites, Egyptians, and other powers fought, control of this region was often at stake—it was the ancient world's crossroads.
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