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Livius.org: History and Culture of Ancient Caria Archived 1 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine; Historia Numorum Online, Caria: ancient Greek coins from Caria; Asia Minor Coins: ancient Greek and Roman coins from Caria; Ancient Caria: In the garden of the sun, CANAN KÜÇÜKEREN, Hürriyet Daily News, 28 March 2011
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 .
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).
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 ]
Myus (Ancient Greek: Μυοῦς), sometimes Myous or Myos, or Myes, was an ancient Greek city in Caria.It was one of thirteen major settlements of the Ionian League, and was one of three that spoke the same Ionic subdialect, the other two being Miletus and Priene.
Pedasa (Ancient Greek: Πήδασα or τὰ Πήδασα), also known as Pedasus or Pedasos (Πήδασος), [1] and as Pedasum, [2] was a town of ancient Caria. It was a polis (city-state) by c. 400 BCE. [3] Alexander the Great deprived the place of its independence by giving it over to the Halicarnassians, together with five other ...
Callipolis is the Latinized form of Kallipolis (Καλλίπολις), which is Ancient Greek for "beautiful city", from κάλλος kállos ("beauty") and πόλις pólis ("city"). It was the name of several ancient cities, notably: Callipolis (Aetolia), town of ancient Aetolia, Greece; Callipolis (Caria), town of ancient Caria, Asia Minor
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