The provinces of Thrace, Noricum, Pamphylia, Lycia, and Judea were annexed under various circumstances during his term.

Due to the influx of Greek speakers and the sparsity of the remaining Lycian speakers, Lycia was totally Hellenized under the Macedonians.

Despite home rule under democratic principles Lycia was not a sovereign state and had not been since its defeat by the Carians.

After the fall of the Byzantine Empire in the 15th century, Lycia was under the Ottoman Empire, and was inherited by the Turkish Republic on the fall of that empire.

Lycia prospered under a monarchy set up by the Persians.

Complete assimilation to Greek occurred in the 4th century, after Lycia had come under Alexander the Great and his fellow Macedonians.

After the fall of the Byzantines in the 15th century, Lycia was under the Ottoman Empire.

Myra became the capital of the Byzantine Eparchy of Lycia under Theodosius II, who reigned from 408 to 450.

Alexander the Great sends an army under the command of Pharnuches of Lycia which is promptly annihilated with a loss of more than 2, 000 infantry and 300 cavalry.

Following Galerius ' death, Maximinus was no longer constrained ; he enthusiastically took up renewed persecutions in the eastern territories under his control, encouraging petitions against Christians, one of which, addressed to him and to Constantine and Licinius, is preserved in a stone inscription at Arycanda in Lycia, " to request that the Christians, who have long been disloyal and still persist in the same mischievous intent, should at last be put down and not be suffered by any absurd novelty to offend against the honour due to the gods.

Late in 1839 Fellows, under the auspices of the British Museum, again set out for Lycia, accompanied by George Scharf, who assisted him in sketching.

With the same sound approach, but under the name of the main project Lycia, in 2002 they released the album Tripping Back Into The Broken Days.

After the death of Alexander, the city remained in Egyptian hands from 209 BC to 197 BC, under the dynasty of Ptolemaios, and with the conclusion of the Apamea treaty, was handed over to the Kingdom of Rhodes, together with the other cities of Lycia.

Lycia had a single monarch, who ruled the entire country from a palace at Xanthos.

Later on, the military power of Alyattes and Croesus expanded Lydia into an empire, with its capital at Sardis, which controlled all Asia Minor west of the River Halys, except Lycia.

As part of the division of the provinces after Alexander's death in 323 BC, Antigonus also received Pamphylia and Lycia from Perdiccas, regent of the empire, at the Partition of Babylon.

During the empire, Asia province was bounded by Bithynia to the north, Lycia to the south, and Galatia to the east.

Marcian was dispatched with his unit for a war against the Sassanids ( probably the Roman-Sassanid war of 421 – 422 ), but along the road East he fell ill in Lycia ; at this time he might have already been tribunus and commander of his unit.

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.

Silverius was sent into exile at Patara in Lycia, whose bishop petitioned the emperor for a fair trial for Silverius.

Lycia was incorporated into the Roman Empire with a provincial status.

The borders of Lycia varied over time but at its centre was the Teke peninsula of southwestern Turkey, which juts into the Mediterranean Sea in a north-south direction, is bounded on the west by the Gulf of Fethiye, and on the east by the Gulf of Antalya.

Xanthos was rebuilt after the destruction and in the final decades of the 5th century BC, Xanthos conquered nearby Telmessos and incorporated it into Lycia.

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 ).

She came from Asia Minor and might have become a slave of the Emperor Claudius, following his expansion of the Roman Empire into Lycia and Pamphylia ; or she might have been purchased later, by Octavia, Claudius ' daughter.

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.

The sound of Lycia increasingly evolved into a heavy-noise or harsh industrial direction.

The text of Saint Nicolas was written by Eric Crozier after extensive research into the legendary life of Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, Lycia.

These mountains create a rugged coastine called by Fellows eastern Lycia.

* 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.

In the Book of Jubilees, when the world was divided among Noah's sons and grandsons, Madai initially received the region east of " Lud " ( Lydia ) and north of Tubal ( Tabal, corresponding to Lycia and western Pamphylia ).

Antigonus ( governor of Phrygia, Lycia and Pamphylia ) refuses to undertake the task when Perdiccas orders him to do so.

Sarpedon, prince of Lycia and ally of Troy, killed Pedasos when his spear missed Patroclus.

Sarpedon became king when his uncles withdrew their claim to Lycia.

Antigonus ( governor of Phrygia, Lycia and Pamphylia ) refused to undertake the task when Perdiccas ordered him to.

* At Patara, in Lycia, there was a seasonal winter oracle of Apollo, said to have been the place where the god went from Delos.

* In the Iliad xvi, Apollo washes the black blood from the corpse of Sarpedon and anoints it with ambrosia, readying it for its dreamlike return to Sarpedon's native Lycia.

They invaded Lycia, but were defeated by Bellerophon, who was sent against them by Iobates, the king of that country, in the hope that he might meet his death at their hands.

In 1840 the Museum became involved in its first overseas excavations, Charles Fellows's expedition to Xanthos, in Asia Minor, whence came remains of the tombs of the rulers of ancient Lycia, among them the Nereid and Payava monuments.

File: Tomb of Payava 2. jpg | Room 20-Tomb of Payava, Lycia, 360 BC

File: Tomb of Merehi 1. jpg | Room 20a-Tomb of Merehi & Greek Vases, Lycia, 360 BC

During his reign the Empire conquered Thrace, Noricum, Pamphylia, Lycia and Judaea, and began the conquest of Britain.

Leto was identified from the fourth century onwards with the principal local mother goddess of Anatolian Lycia, as the region became Hellenized.

Another sanctuary, more recently identified, was at Oenoanda in the north of Lycia.

Antoninus Liberalis is not alone in hinting that Leto came down from the land of the Hyperboreans in the guise of a she-wolf, or that she sought out the " wolf-country " of Lycia, formerly called Tremilis, which she renamed to honour wolves that had befriended her for her denning.

Leto was intensely worshipped in Lycia, Asia Minor.

Proclus was born February 8, 412 AD ( his birth date is deduced from a horoscope cast by a disciple, Marinus ) in Constantinople to a family of high social status in Lycia ( his father Patricius was a high legal official, very important in the Byzantine Empire's court system ) and raised in Xanthus.

* Diomedes was first thrown by a storm on the coast of Lycia, where he was to be sacrificed to Ares by king Lycus, but Callirrhoe, the king's daughter, took pity upon him, and assisted him in escaping.

* Claudius annexes Lycia in Asia Minor, combining it with Pamphylia as a Roman province.

Another ancient source is Diogenes of Oenoanda, who composed a large inscription at Oenoanda in Lycia.

Proetus started out as king of Argos, and held the throne for about seventeen years, but Acrisius defeated and exiled him and he fled to King Jobates or Amphianax in Lycia, and married his daughter Antea or Stheneboea.

Proetus then sent Bellerophon to Iobates in Lycia, with a letter in which Iobates was desired to murder Bellerophon.

* Piracy along the coast of Lycia and Pamphylia.

The Basilica di San Nicola was founded in 1087 to receive the relics of this saint, which were surreptitiously brought from Myra in Lycia, in Byzantine territory.

The Basilica di San Nicola ( Saint Nicholas ) was founded in 1087 to receive the relics of this saint, which were brought from Myra in Lycia, and now lie beneath the altar in the crypt, where are buried the Topins, which are a legacy of old thieves converted to good faith.