Editing Arnuwanda I (section)

===Western border - the Problems with Madduwatta===
When Tudḫaliya II died and Arnuwanda I became sole king, he continued to face the problems caused by the machinations of Madduwatta.<ref>Freu 2007b: 120.</ref> The latter undertook hostile actions in the regions of Šallapa and Pittaša and made an alliance with his erstwhile enemy Kupanta-Kurunta of Arzawa, whom he offered his daughter as wife; nevertheless, Madduwatta portrayed this as a ploy against Kupanta-Kurunta, while protesting his loyalty to Arnuwanda.<ref>Bryce 2005: 134; Freu 2007b: 120-121; Yakubovich 2008: 98-99.</ref> Madduwatta attacked the rebellious land of Ḫapalla, ostensibly on behalf of the Hittite monarch, but followed his own interests in annexing it, and in intervening farther afield to the south, in the Lukka lands and as far as [[Alasiya|Alašiya]] ([[Cyprus]]). The last conquest was possibly undertaken in cooperation with another old enemy, Attaršiya of Aḫḫiya, and again elicited protest from Arnuwanda.<ref>Bryce 2005: 135-136; Freu 2007b: 121-122.</ref> The Hittite monarch reclaimed Ḫapalla, but further developments with Madduwatta and Kupanta-Kurunta remain unclear.

The latter’s possible successor Uḫḫa-zalma (or Ḫuḫḫa-zalma) concluded a treaty with Arnuwanda.<ref>Freu 2007b: 123, 132-133.</ref> Later, King [[Tarhuntaradu|Tarḫunt-aradu]] of Arzawa would expand at Hittite expense and correspond with the [[New Kingdom of Egypt|Egyptian]] pharaoh [[Amenhotep III]] as a fellow great king.<ref>Craig Melchert (2003), [https://books.google.com/books?id=9ut5DwAAQBAJ&dq=arnuwanda+concentric+invasions&pg=PA56 The Luwians.] pp. 383. Brill. p. 56</ref>