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Roman province. Asia. Location of Caria within the classical regions of Asia Minor / Anatolia. Caria ( / ˈkɛəriə /; from Greek: Καρία, Karia; Turkish: Karya) was a region of western Anatolia extending along the coast from mid- Ionia ( Mycale) south to Lycia and east to Phrygia. [1]
Location of Caria within the classical regions of Asia Minor. Carian soldier of the Achaemenid army c. 480 BC. Tomb of Xerxes I. [ 1] Ancient copy of the cult image of a local goddess hellenized as Aphrodite at Aphrodisias. The Carians ( / ˈkɛəriənz /; Ancient Greek: Κᾶρες, Kares, plural of Κάρ, Kar[ 2]) were the ancient ...
The earliest Minoan settlement of Miletus dates to 2000 BC. [9] Beginning at about 1900 BC artifacts of the Minoan civilization acquired by trade arrived at the site. [8] For some centuries the location received a strong impulse from that civilization, an archaeological fact that tends to support but not necessarily confirm the founding legend—that is, a population influx from Crete.
The city was famous for the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, also known simply as the Tomb of Mausolus, whose name provided the origin of the word "mausoleum". The mausoleum, built from 353 to 350 BC, ranked as one of the seven wonders of the ancient world . Halicarnassus' history was special on two interlinked issues.
Kaunos ( Carian: Kbid; [1] Lycian: Xbide; [1] Ancient Greek: Καῦνος; Latin: Caunus) was a city of ancient Caria and in Anatolia, a few kilometres west of the modern town of Dalyan, Muğla Province, Turkey . The Calbys river (now known as the Dalyan river) was the border between Caria and Lycia. Initially Kaunos was a separate state; then ...
Regions of ancient Anatolia. Borders drawn along the Euphrates and Armenian Highlands in the east, Taurus Mountains, Amanus Mountains (today's Nur Mountains) and Mediterranean Sea in the south and south-east, Pontus Euxinus ( Black Sea) to the north, and Aegean Sea, Propontis ( Marmara sea ), Bosphorus and Thrace in the west.
Map showing locations where Carian inscriptions have been found—in Caria proper, Mainland Greece, and Egypt. Carian is known from these sources: Nearly 40 inscriptions from Caria including five Carian-Greek bilinguals (however, only for two of them the connection between the Carian and Greek text is evident)
Antioch on the Maeander or Antiochia on the Maeander ( Greek: Ἀντιόχεια τοῦ Μαιάνδρου; Latin: Antiochia ad Maeandrum ), earlier Pythopolis, was a city of ancient Caria, in Anatolia, in modern-day Turkey. The city was situated between the Maeander and Orsinus rivers near their confluence. Though it was the site of a bridge ...