Chypre, Rhodes et l’Anatolie méridionale : la question ionienne

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Examination of the Aegyptian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Biblical and Achaemenid texts, indicates that the “Ionians” (Yaw/mnayi, Yawan, Yauna) were not only Greek and Cypriot populations, but also Anatolian populations, mainly Luwians, settled at the Aegean and Mediterranean coasts during the Archaic and Classical periods. For the Oriental chanceleries, the “Ionians” were the non-semitic western “Sea Peoples”, from Cicilia to Greece.