Caria

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ancient region historical region

Caria was an ancient region in southwestern Anatolia, known for its coastal cities, distinctive Carian culture, and later integration into the Persian and Hellenistic worlds.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient region ⓘ
historical region ⓘ
borders Aegean Sea ⓘ
Ionia ⓘ
Lycia ⓘ
Phrygia ⓘ
controlledBy Achaemenid Empire ⓘ
Byzantine Empire ⓘ
Hecatomnid dynasty ⓘ
Macedon ⓘ
surface form: Macedonian Empire

Achaemenid Empire ⓘ
surface form: Persian Empire

Ptolemaic Kingdom ⓘ
Rhodes ⓘ
Roman Empire ⓘ
Roman Republic ⓘ
Seleucid Empire ⓘ
ethnicGroup Carians ⓘ
flourishedIn Classical period ⓘ
Hellenistic period ⓘ
hasCapital Halicarnassus ⓘ
hasCulture Carian culture ⓘ
hasLanguage Carian language ⓘ
hasMajorCity Alinda ⓘ
Aphrodisias ⓘ
Euromos ⓘ
Halicarnassus ⓘ
Heraclea at Latmus ⓘ
Iasos ⓘ
Knidos ⓘ
Miletus ⓘ
Mylasa ⓘ
Stratonicea ⓘ
hasMonument Mausoleum at Halicarnassus ⓘ
integratedInto Hellenistic period ⓘ
surface form: Hellenistic world

Persian administrative system ⓘ
Roman province of Asia ⓘ
knownFor Mausoleum at Halicarnassus ⓘ
coastal cities ⓘ
distinctive funerary architecture ⓘ
maritime trade ⓘ
mercenary soldiers ⓘ
locatedIn Asia Minor ⓘ
southwestern Anatolia ⓘ
modernCountry Turkey ⓘ
modernLocation Aydın Province ⓘ
Muğla Province ⓘ
partOf Anatolia ⓘ
religion Greek religion ⓘ
local Anatolian cults ⓘ
timePeriod 1st millennium BCE ⓘ

Referenced by (8)

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

Herodotus → birthPlace → Caria ⓘ
Phrygia → borderedBy → Caria ⓘ
Lycia → borders → Caria ⓘ
Megara → hasAcropolis → Caria ⓘ
Lydian Kingdom → neighbor → Caria ⓘ
Didyma → region → Caria ⓘ