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The Hecatomnid dynasty or Hecatomnids were the rulers of Caria and surrounding areas c. 395 – c. 330 BCE. They were satraps (governors) under the Achaemenid Empire , although they ruled with considerable autonomy as a hereditary dynasty.
Coinage of Hekatomnos, with effigy of the Satrap. Circa 392/1-377/6 BC. Hecatomnus was a native of Mylasa, and made that city his capital and the seat of his government.. Hence the figure of Zeus Labrandenos appears on his coins walking and carrying a labrys over his shoulder, from the celebrated temple of that name near Myl
Caria Map Asia Minor. The tomb of Hecatomnus or Hekatomnos (Greek: Ἑκατόμνος, Carian: 𐊴𐊭𐊪𐊵𐊫 k̂tmno "under-son, descendant(?)" [1]) is in the Hisarbaşı District of Milas, one of the most important cities of the Caria region, located in the southwest of Anatolia in present-day Turkey.
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The Hecatomnids built themselves a palace on the promontory of Zephyrion, next to the older Temple of Apollo, which has since been built over by the medieval Castle of St Peter. The synoecism of Halicarnassus may have been inspired by the earlier synoecism of Rhodes , when the three major Greek cities of the island ( Ialysus , Camirus , and ...
Possible illustration of the conflict between Abydos and Nekhen (Hierakonpolis), on the Gebel el-Arak Knife, Louvre Museum, 3300–3200 BCE. [1]Nekhen (/ ˈ n ɛ k ə n /, Ancient Egyptian: nḫn), also known as Hierakonpolis (/ ˌ h aɪər ə ˈ k ɒ n p ə l ɪ s /; Greek: Ἱεράκων πόλις, romanized: Hierákōn pólis, meaning City of Hawks or City of Falcons, [2] [3] a reference ...
The Magyar or Hungarian tribes (/ ˈ m æ ɡ j ɑːr / MAG-yar, Hungarian: magyar törzsek) or Hungarian clans were the fundamental political units within whose framework the Hungarians (Magyars) lived, before the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin and the subsequent establishment of the Principality of Hungary.