An ancient region and polity on the southwestern Anatolian coast, inhabited by the Lycian people who spoke a distinctive Anatolian language, until conquest by the Achaemenid Persians.
Incorporated as an Achaemenid satrapy c. 540 BCE when the Persian general Harpagus, acting for Cyrus the Great, subdued the Anatolian coast including the siege of Xanthos; Lycia thereafter remained a Persian province until conquered by Alexander the Great in 334–333 BCE.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Lycia — the shape you scrub through changes in 1400 BC · 1299 BC · 1000 BC.
A reliable, readable introduction to the Bronze Age peoples of Anatolia and the Hittite world, the milieu of the Hattians, Arzawa, Kizzuwatna, and Kaska.
Lycia (as 'Lukka') appears in Hittite sources; Bryce discusses the relationship.