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The first Trojans/tyrsenians to cross the Aegean from turkey to Italy had names such as Amycus, Lycus, Orontes, Gyas or Cloanthus. In fact, Orontes was of Lycian origin. Orontes was also a hellenized form of an Etruscan name. The Orontes is also a river that crosses Lebanon, Syria and turkey. Ultimately though, Orontes is traced back to the Orontid Dynasty of the Armenians, many of this dynasty's kings where called Orontes.
The Orontid Dynasty (also known by their native name, Yervanduni (Armenian: Երվանդունիներ, Persian: اروندی) was a hereditary Armenian dynasty and the rulers of the successor state to the Iron Age kingdom of Urartu.[1][2][3] The Orontids established their supremacy over Armenia around the time of the Scythian and Median invasion in the sixth century BC.
Of probable Iranian origin,[4] members of the dynasty ruled Armenia intermittently during the period spanning the sixth century to at least the second century BC, first as client kings or satraps of the Median and Achaemenid empires who established an independent kingdom after the collapse of the Achaemenid empire, and later as kings of Sophene and Commagene who eventually succumbed to the Roman Empire.
This is where the Etruscans trace their most basal origins/beginnings at.
The Orontid Dynasty (also known by their native name, Yervanduni (Armenian: Երվանդունիներ, Persian: اروندی) was a hereditary Armenian dynasty and the rulers of the successor state to the Iron Age kingdom of Urartu.[1][2][3] The Orontids established their supremacy over Armenia around the time of the Scythian and Median invasion in the sixth century BC.
Of probable Iranian origin,[4] members of the dynasty ruled Armenia intermittently during the period spanning the sixth century to at least the second century BC, first as client kings or satraps of the Median and Achaemenid empires who established an independent kingdom after the collapse of the Achaemenid empire, and later as kings of Sophene and Commagene who eventually succumbed to the Roman Empire.
This is where the Etruscans trace their most basal origins/beginnings at.