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Caria was settled by Greek immigrants in the Early Iron Age [citation needed]. Their presence is attested by protogeometric pottery [citation needed] which appears in the area around 1100 BC, along with other markers of Greek material culture. [9] The coast of Caria was part of the Doric hexapolis ("six-cities"). [citation needed]
Ancient copy of the cult image of a local goddess hellenized as Aphrodite at Aphrodisias The Carians ( / ˈ k ɛər i ə n z / ; Ancient Greek : Κᾶρες , Kares , plural of Κάρ , Kar [ 2 ] ) were the ancient inhabitants of Caria in southwest Anatolia , who spoke the Carian language .
Artemisia I of Caria (Ancient Greek: Ἀρτεμισία; fl. 480 BC) was a queen of the ancient Greek city-state of Halicarnassus, which is now in Bodrum, present-day Turkey. She was also queen of the nearby islands of Kos , Nisyros and Kalymnos , [ 2 ] within the Achaemenid satrapy of Caria , in about 480 BC. [ 2 ]
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 ...
Ancient cities of Caria. Aphrodisias (/ æ f r ə ˈ d ɪ s i ə s /; [1] Ancient Greek: Ἀφροδισιάς, romanized: Aphrodisiás) was a Roman city in the historic Caria cultural region of western Asia Minor, today's Anatolia in Turkey.
Ancient cities of Caria. Nysa on the Maeander (Greek: Νύσα or Νύσσα) was an ancient city and bishopric of Asia Minor, whose remains are in the Sultanhisar district of Aydın Province of Turkey, 50 kilometres (31 mi) east of the Ionian city of Ephesus, and which remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
Ada of Caria (Ancient Greek: Ἄδα) (fl. 377 – 326 BC) [1] was a member of the House of Hecatomnus (the Hecatomnids) and ruler of Caria during the mid-4th century BC, first as Persian Satrap and later as Queen under the auspices of Alexander III (the Great) of Macedon.
Assesos or Assesus (Ancient Greek: Ἀσσησός) was a small ancient Greek town in the region of Caria in Asia Minor, in the territory of Miletus, and the site of a sanctuary of Athena Assesia (Ancient Greek: Ἀσσησία Ἀθηνᾶ).