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Alaksandu is the successor of one Kikunni . Muwtalli recalls the friendship of Kikunni with his own grandfather, Suppiluliuma I , evoking some three centuries of friendship between the Hittites and Wilusa. Muwatalli in his letter downplays the importance of royal ancestry, suggesting that Alaksandu had come to power by other means than regular succession, so that Alaksandu is not necessarily a blood-relation of Kikunni's. This has been taken as a hint that he may have been an early Greek ruler called Alexander , and he has been associated with Homer 's ''Alexandros'' of ''Ilion'', who is better known by his nickname Paris , of Troy . SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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