Herodotus (; Hēródotos ) was an ancient Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus, Caria ( modern day Bodrum, Turkey ) and lived in the fifth century BC ( 484 – 425 BC ).

Ctesias of Cnidus (; ) was a Greek physician and historian from Cnidus in Caria.

The Carians (; Kares ) were the ancient inhabitants of Caria in southwest Anatolia.

On his arrival at Ephesus a three months ' truce was concluded with Tissaphernes, the satrap of Lydia and Caria, but negotiations conducted during that time proved fruitless, and on its termination Agesilaus raided Phrygia, where he easily won immense booty from the satrap Pharnabazus ; Tissaphernes could offer no assistance, as he had concentrated his troops in Caria.

In the edict, preserved in an inscription from the city of Aphrodisias in Caria ( near Geyre, Turkey ), it was declared that all debts contracted before 1 September 301 must be repaid at the old standards, while all debts contracted after that date would be repaid at the new standards.

According to the Suda ( an 11th-century encyclopaedia of Byzantium which likely took its information from traditional accounts ), Herodotus learned the Ionian dialect as a boy living on the island of Samos, whither he had fled with his family from the oppressions of Lygdamis, tyrant of Halicarnassus and grandson of Artemisia I of Caria.

Internal evidence from the poems gives evidence of familiarity with the topography and place-names of this area of Asia Minor, for example, Homer refers to meadow birds at the mouth of the Caystros, a storm in the Icarian sea, and mentions that women in Maeonia and Caria stain ivory with scarlet.

According to Cassius Dio, his most stable relationship seems to have been with his chariot driver, a blond slave from Caria named Hierocles, whom he referred to as his husband.

Philip had seized several islands and cities in Caria and Thrace, while the Battle of Panium ( 198 BC ) had resulted in the transfer of Coele-Syria, including Judea, from the Ptolemies to the Seleucids.

Even " the best born of the Ionians ", the Athenians, married girls from Caria.

Caria and Lycia came to the attention of Athens, most powerful state remaining in Greece, which also had lost its central government ruling from Mycenae, now burned and nearly vacant.

In ancient times the surrounding districts were, from west to east, Caria, Pisidia, and Pamphylia, all equally as ancient, and each speaking its own Anatolian language.

The name Chrysaoris once applied to all of Caria ; moreover, Euromus was originally settled from Lycia.

Allegedly, the region received the name of Caria from Car, an ancestral hero of the Carians.

Still named Menteşe until the early decades of the 20th century, the kazas corresponding to ancient Caria are recorded by sources such as G. Sotiriadis ( 1918 ) and S. Anagiostopoulou ( 1997 ) as having a Greek population averaging at around ten per cent of the total, ranging somewhere between twelve to eighteen thousand, many of them reportedly recent immigrants from the islands.

* Asia Minor Coins: ancient Greek and Roman coins from Caria

* Ptolemy personally commands a fleet that captures the coastal regions of Lycia and Caria from Antigonus.

When, therefore, in 408 BC the king decided to support Sparta strenuously, Tissaphernes was removed from the generalship and limited to the satrapy of Caria, whereas Lydia and the conduct of the war were entrusted to Cyrus the Younger.

Deer-huntress Artemis frequently paid visits to Caria, the mainland across the shore from Patmos, where she had a shrine on Mount Latmos.

Others relate that on the way back from Troy Podalirius ' ship was blown off course so he landed in Syrnus, Caria, where he settled.

As soon as their crime was discovered, the four had to escape from Rhodes: Macareus fled to Lesbos, Candalus to Cos, Triopas to Caria, and Actis to Egypt.

The peace did not last long, and in 309 Ptolemy personally commanded a fleet that detached the coastal towns of Lycia and Caria from Antigonus, then crossed into Greece, where he took possession of Corinth, Sicyon and Megara ( 308 BC ).

Philip seized several islands and places in Caria and Thrace, whilst the Battle of Panium ( 198 BC ) definitely transferred Coele-Syria, including Judea, from the Ptolemies to the Seleucids.

Ancient Anatolia is subdivided by modern scholars into various regions named after the various Indo-European ( and largely Hittite, Luwian or Greek speaking ) peoples that occupied them, such as Lydia, Lycia, Caria, Mysia, Bithynia, Phrygia, Galatia, Lycaonia, Pisidia, Paphlagonia, Cilicia, and Cappadocia.

From the 9th century BC, Luwian regions coalesced into a number of states such as Lydia, Caria and Lycia, all of which had Hellenic influence.

To the west of it the steep gorges of Dalaman Çayi (" the Dalaman River "), the ancient Indus, formed the traditional border between Caria and Lycia.

After the Persian conquest the Maeander was regarded as its southern boundary, and under Rome, Lydia comprised the country between Mysia and Caria on the one side and Phrygia and the Aegean on the other.

Philip then invaded Caria but the Rhodians and Pergamonians successfully blockaded his fleet in Bargylia, forcing him to spend the winter with his army in a country which offered very few provisions.

In the legend, when Rhacius, the Cretan settler of Caria, learned who they were, he let them settle in the country and married Manto himself.

Cyprus was an experienced seafaring nation and Alexander used the Cypriot fleet during his campaign into India ; because the country had many navigable rivers, he included a significant number of shipbuilders and rowers from Cyprus, Egypt, Phoenicia and Caria in his military expedition.

In 315 BC, when Antigonus began his operations against the confederates, he sent one Ptolemy, a nephew of his, with, an army to relieve Amisus, and to expel from Cappadocia the army with which Asander had invaded that country ; but as Asander was supported by Ptolemy and Cassander, he maintained himself until 313 BC, when Antigonus himself marched against him, and compelled him to conclude a treaty by which he was bound to surrender his whole army, to restore the Greek towns on the coast to freedom, to regard his satrapy of Caria as the gift of Antigonus, and to give his brother Agathon as hostage.

Often historians assume, as a general rule, that autochthonous inhabitants survive an invasion as an under-class where they do not retreat to mountain districts, so it is interesting to hear in Deipnosophistae that Philippus of Theangela ( a 4th century BCE historian ) referred to Leleges still surviving as serfs of the " true Carians ", and even later Strabo attributes to the Leleges a distinctive group of deserted forts and tombs in Caria that were still known in his day as " Lelegean forts "; the Encyclopædia Britannica 1911 identified these as ruins that could still be traced ranging from the neighborhood of Theangela and Halicarnassus as far north as Miletus, the southern limit of the " true Carians " of Pherecydes.

* Livius. org: History and Culture of Ancient Caria

Category: Ancient Greeks in Caria

Melankomas, or Melancomas, was an Ancient Greek boxer from Caria and victor in the 207th Olympiad ( AD 49.

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The word derives from the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus ( near modern-day Bodrum in Turkey ), the grave of King Mausolus, the Persian satrap of Caria, whose large tomb was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

A major city of ancient Caria, Muğla is known to have been occupied by raiding parties of Egyptians, Assyrians and Scythians, until eventually the area was settled by Ancient Greek colonists.

Batrachomyomachia ( Ancient Greek:, from, frog,, mouse, and,, battle ) or the Battle of Frogs and Mice is a comic epic or parody of the Iliad, definitely attributed to Homer by the Romans, but according to Plutarch the work of Pigres of Halicarnassus, the brother ( or son ) of Artemisia, queen of Caria and ally of Xerxes.

Category: Ancient Greeks in Caria

Category: Ancient Greeks in Caria

Category: Ancient Greeks in Caria

Nysa ( Ancient Greek: Νῦσα ) was an ancient city of Caria in Anatolia, whose remnants are now in the Sultanhisar district of Aydın Province of Turkey, east of the Ionian city of Ephesus.

Category: Ancient Greeks in Caria

Category: Ancient Greeks in Caria

Category: Ancient Greeks in Caria

Category: Ancient Greeks in Caria

Category: Ancient Greeks in Caria