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.

Herodotus says that Satrapy 1 ( the satrapies were numbered ) consisted of Ionia, Magnesia, Aeolia, Caria, Lycia, Milya, and Pamphylia, who togther paid a tax of 400 silver talents.

Keen hypothesizes that since Caria had responsibility for the King's Highway through Lycia, Lycia and Caria were a satrapy.

* Egypt's victories solidify the kingdom's position as the undisputed naval power of the eastern Mediterranean ; the Ptolemaic sphere of power now extends over the Cyclades to Samothrace, and the harbours and coastal towns of Cilicia Trachea, Pamphylia, Lycia and Caria.

Caria (; from Luwian: Karuwa, " steep country "; Ancient Greek: Καρία, Karia ) was a region of western Anatolia extending along the coast from mid-Ionia ( Mycale ) south to Lycia and east to Phrygia.

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

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

At the age of fifteen, he grew bored with his surroundings and traveled to the cities of Lycia and Caria.

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 ).

* Termera ( Strabo ) A Lelege people displaced by the Trojan War, first settling in Caria and assigning such names as Telmessos, Termera, Termerion, Termeros, Termilae, then displaced to Lycia by the Ionians.

Achaia, Adramyttium, Antioch in Pisidia, Asia, Asiarch, Bithynia, Cappadocia, Caria, Chios, Churches ( Robbers of ), Cilicia, Cnidus, Colossae, Corinth, Cos, Delos, Derbe, Diana, Ephesian, Ephesus, Galatia, Galatia ( Region of ), Galatians, Halicarnassus, Hierapolis, Iconium, Laodicea, Lasea, Lycaona, Lycia, Lydia, Lystra, Mallus, Miletus, Myndus, Myra, Mysia, Nicopolis, Pamphylia, Patara, Perga, Pergamus, or Pergamum, Phasaelis, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Phrygia, Pisidia, Pontus, Rhegium, Rhodes, Samothrace, Sardis, Smyrna, Syracuse, Tarsus, Thracia, Town Clerk, Troas, Tyrannus.

* seven in Asiana: Pisidia, Lycaonia, Phrygia Pacatiana and Salutaris, Lycia, Caria, Insulae.

According to the suggestion of Vitaly Shevoroshkin, applying the term to men of the lands that would become classical Caria and Lycia, " Leleges " would then be an attempt to transliterate lulahi into Greek.

Ptolemy received Egypt ; Laomedon received Syria and Phoenicia ; Philotas took Cilicia ; Peithon took Media ; Antigonus received Phrygia, Lycia and Pamphylia ; Asander received Caria ; Menander received Lydia ; Lysimachus received Thrace ; Leonnatus received Hellespontine Phrygia ; and Neoptolemus had Armenia.

Ptolemy received Egypt ; Laomedon received Syria and Phoenicia ; Philotas took Cilicia ; Peithon took Media ; Antigonus received Phrygia, Lycia and Pamphylia ; Asander received Caria ; Menander received Lydia ; Lysimachus received Thrace ; Leonnatus received Hellespontine Phrygia ; and Neoptolemus had Armenia.

He made drawings of views and antiquities from Lycia, Caria, and Lydia, which are now in British Museum.

Pisidia () was a region of ancient Asia Minor located north of Lycia, and bordering Caria, Lydia, Phrygia and Pamphylia.

The Carian language was spoken in Caria, a region of western Anatolia between the ancient regions of Lycia and Lydia, by the Carians, a name possibly first mentioned in Hittite sources.

However, the Assuwa League included Karkija ( Caria ), in southwest Anatolia, south of even the proposed Lukka ( Lycia ).

Alexander was a native of Aphrodisias in Caria and came to Athens towards the end of the 2nd century.

The semi-Hellenic countries around the Greek world, such as Lydia, Caria, and even Egypt also respected her and came to Delphi as supplicants.

When Gyges rebelled and was making war upon Candaules, Arselis came with a force from Mylasa to assist Gyges ; Arselis then slew Candaules and his companion and took the axe to Caria with the other spoils of war.

After Augustus came to power, he established a proconsulship for the province of Asia, embracing the regions of Mysia, Lydia, Caria, and Phrygia.

He was a native of Aphrodisias in Caria, and lived and taught in Athens at the beginning of the 3rd century, where he held a position as head of the Peripatetic school.

When in 413 BC, Athens supported the rebel Amorges in Caria, Darius would not have responded had not the Athenian power been broken in the same year at Syracuse.

After a brief membership in the Athenian Empire, it seceded and became independent ( its treaty with Athens had omitted the usual non-secession clause ), was under the Persians again, revolted again, was conquered by Maussollus of Caria, returned to the Persians, and went under Macedonian hegemony at the defeat of the Persians by Alexander the Great.

* Athens recognises the independence of Chios, Kos and Rhodes and makes peace with Mausolus of Caria.

Pharnabazus is first recorded as satrap of this province in 413 BC, when, having received orders from Darius II of Persia to send in the outstanding tribute of the Greek cities on the Ionian coast, he, like Tissaphernes of Caria, entered into negotiations with Sparta and began a war with Athens.

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.

As a result, Ptolemy II extends Egyptian rule as far as Caria and into most of Cilicia.

" The region of Caria continues to be an important fig-producing area to this day, accounting for most fig production in Turkey, which is the world's largest producer of figs.

In an age, when most of the establishments in Asia are kingdoms, an interesting example of a Hellenistic cities federation is the Chrysaorian League in Caria.

740, was the successor of the Army of Thrace, and covered the central western coast of Asia Minor ( Ionia, Lydia and Caria ), with its capital most likely at Chonae.

The Persian actions that Herodotus describes at the Hellespont and in Caria seem to be in the same year, and most commentators place them in 497 BC.

After taking sketches of the most interesting objects and copying a number of inscriptions, he returned to Smyrna through Caria and Lydia.

Menippus of Stratonikeia ( in Greek Mενιππoς ; b. Stratonicea, Caria, lived 1st century BC ), surnamed Catocas, was a Carian by birth ; he was the most accomplished orator of his time in all Asia ( 79 BC ).

Caria also comprises the headwaters of the Indus and Eriya or Eriyus and Thabusion on the border with the small state of Cibyra.

The name of Caria appears in a number of early languages: Hittite Karkija ( a member state of the Assuwa league, ca.

Apasa ( Ephesus ) was the capital of a state called Arzawa in which also was Karkisha ( Caria ) and Millawanda ( Miletus ).

The Meliac War was a final settlement between the ancient state of Caria and the Ionians who had been settlers on its land at the mouth of the Maeander for some centuries.