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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.
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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.
The Carian alphabets are a number of regional scripts used to write the Carian language of western Anatolia.They consisted of some 30 alphabetic letters, with several geographic variants in Caria and a homogeneous variant attested from the Nile delta, where Carian mercenaries fought for the Egyptian pharaohs.
Map showing locations where Carian inscriptions have been found—in Caria proper, Mainland Greece, and Egypt. Carian is known from these sources: [5] [6] 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)
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 ...
The Hecatomnids were therefore one of many minor dynasties in Caria. Their seat was originally Mylasa, a major city in central Caria. The family may have gained control of the city when Heracleides of Mylasa fled Caria after the Ionian Revolt. [2] Herodotus records how, during the Ionian Revolt, the dynasts of Cindye included a Mausolus and a ...