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Caria (/ ˈ k ɛər i ə /; from Greek: Καρία, Karia; Turkish: Karya) was a region of western Anatolia extending along the coast from mid-Ionia south to Lycia and east to Phrygia. [1] The Carians were described by Herodotus as being Anatolian mainlanders and they called themselves Caria because of the name of their king. [2]
The Carians next appear in records of the early centuries of the first millennium BC; Homer's writing about the golden armour or ornaments of the Carian captain Nastes, the brother of Amphimachus and son of Nomion, [4] reflects the reputation of Carian wealth that may have preceded the Greek Dark Ages and thus recalled in oral tradition.
The Carian language is an extinct language of the Luwic subgroup of the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family, spoken by the Carians.The known corpus is small, and the majority comes from Egypt.
They were written left-to-right in Caria (apart from the Carian–Lydian city of Tralleis) and right-to-left in Egypt. Carian was deciphered primarily through Egyptian–Carian bilingual tomb inscriptions, starting with John Ray in 1981; previously only a few sound values and the alphabetic nature of the script had been demonstrated.
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The ancient bishopric of Stratonicea in Caria is included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees. [26] No further titular bishop of this eastern see has been appointed since the Second Vatican Council. [27] Antonio Stoppani, (13 Jun 1917 Appointed - 6 Aug 1940) Joseph Cucherousset, (9 Apr 1948 Appointed - 14 Sep 1955 ) Carlos Guillermo
Carian is a Unicode block containing the Masson set and four additional characters for writing the ancient Carian language in Caria and Egypt, where the Carians served as mercenaries. Carian [1] [2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
Mausolus was the eldest son of Hecatomnus, a native Carian who became the satrap of Caria shortly after Tissaphernes died, c. 395 – c. 392 BCE. [3] Mausolus succeeded his father upon Hecatomnus' death in 377 BCE. [4] [3] The two may have shared the rule of Caria in the early 370s BCE, though, shortly before the death of Hecatomnus. [5]