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Is there any way that a state based in Anatolia, like a Phrygian state or a Hittite Empire that lasted through the Bronze Age Collapse somehow, could build an empire sometime between the Collapse and the rise of the Achaemenid Empire that had roughly the borders of the 1914 Ottoman Empire? Who would be the most likely candidate for such a thing and what would such an empire look like?

Bonus points if said empire possessed Egypt and/or parts of the Balkans.
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