Lycians

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Anatolian people ancient people

The Lycians were an ancient Anatolian people of southwestern Asia Minor, known for their distinctive language, rock-cut tombs, and semi-autonomous federation of city-states under Persian and later Greek and Roman influence.

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Observed surface forms (3)

Surface form Occurrences
Lycian civilization 3
Lycian 2
Lycian culture 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Anatolian people ⓘ
ancient people ⓘ
archaeologicalSite Xanthos-Letoon NERFINISHED ⓘ
capital Xanthos NERFINISHED ⓘ
economyBasedOn agriculture ⓘ
maritime trade ⓘ
timber export ⓘ
ethnicGroupOf Lycia NERFINISHED ⓘ
governedBy Lycian League NERFINISHED ⓘ
heritageStatus Xanthos-Letoon UNESCO World Heritage Site NERFINISHED ⓘ
integratedInto Roman province of Lycia et Pamphylia NERFINISHED ⓘ
knownFor elaborate funerary architecture ⓘ
federation of city-states ⓘ
naval activity in the eastern Mediterranean ⓘ
pillar tombs ⓘ
rock-cut tombs ⓘ
languageFamily Anatolian branch of Indo-European languages ⓘ
locatedInThePast southwestern Anatolia NERFINISHED ⓘ
southwestern Asia Minor ⓘ
majorCity Myra NERFINISHED ⓘ
Olympos NERFINISHED ⓘ
Patara NERFINISHED ⓘ
Phaselis NERFINISHED ⓘ
Pinara NERFINISHED ⓘ
Tlos NERFINISHED ⓘ
Xanthos NERFINISHED ⓘ
mentionedBy Herodotus NERFINISHED ⓘ
Homer NERFINISHED ⓘ
Strabo ⓘ
participatedIn Trojan War (in Greek tradition) NERFINISHED ⓘ
politicalInnovation representative assembly of cities ⓘ
weighted voting by city size ⓘ
politicalStructure federation of city-states ⓘ
religion polytheism ⓘ
spoke Lycian language NERFINISHED ⓘ
timePeriod Classical antiquity NERFINISHED ⓘ
Iron Age ⓘ
Late Bronze Age NERFINISHED ⓘ
underInfluenceOf Achaemenid Persian Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ
Classical Greece NERFINISHED ⓘ
Hellenistic kingdoms NERFINISHED ⓘ
Roman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ
Roman Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ
usedScript Greek alphabet ⓘ
Lycian alphabet NERFINISHED ⓘ
worshipCentre Sanctuary of Leto near Xanthos NERFINISHED ⓘ
worshippedDeity Apollo NERFINISHED ⓘ
Artemis NERFINISHED ⓘ
Leto NERFINISHED ⓘ

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Arycanda → culture → Lycians ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lycian
Kekova Sunken City → culture → Lycians ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lycian civilization
Olympos Ruins → culture → Lycians ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lycian
Pinara → culture → Lycians ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lycian culture
Xanthos → hasInfluenceFrom → Lycians ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lycian civilization
Lycian Way → heritage → Lycians ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lycian civilization
Carians → neighboringPeople → Lycians ⓘ