Caria

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Caria (Καρία)
Ancient region of Anatolia
Asia Minor/Anatolia

Caria (

Anatolian language closely related to Luwian. Also closely associated with the Carians were the Leleges
, which could be an earlier name for Carians.

Municipalities of Caria

Seven wonders of the ancient world, was built by Greek architects for the local Achaemenid satrap of Caria, Mausolus
(Scale model)
Map of ancient Caria showing cities
Carian cities in white. This map depicts the current rivers and coastline and certain features have changed over the years, notably Miletus, Heracleia, and Myus were on the south side of a gulf and Priene on the north side; the river Maeander has since filled in the gulf. Also politically Telmessos, Miletus, and Kalynda were sometimes considered Carian and sometimes not

Cramer's detailed catalog of Carian towns is based entirely on ancient sources.[3] The multiple names of towns and geomorphic features, such as bays and headlands, reveal an ethnic layering consistent with the known colonization.

Coastal Caria

Coastal Caria begins with

Iassus and Bargylia, giving an alternative name of Bargyleticus Sinus to Güllük Körfezi, and nearby Cindye, which the Carians called Andanus. After Bargylia is Caryanda or Caryinda, and then on the Bodrum Peninsula Myndus
(Mentecha or Muntecha), 56 miles (90 km) from Miletus. In the vicinity is Naziandus, exact location unknown.

On the tip of the Bodrum Peninsula (Cape Termerium) is Termera (Telmera, Termerea), and on the other side Ceramicus Sinus (

Telmissus. These with Myndus and Synagela (or Syagela or Souagela) constitute the eight Lelege towns. Also on the north coast of the Ceramicus Sinus is Ceramus
and Bargasus.

On the south of the Ceramicus Sinus is the Carian Chersonnese, or Triopium Promontory (

Cnidus. At the base of the peninsula (Datça Peninsula
) is Bybassus or Bybastus from which an earlier names, the Bybassia Chersonnese, had been derived. It was now Acanthus and Doulopolis ("slave city").

South of the Carian Chersonnese is Doridis Sinus, the "Gulf of Doris" (Gulf of

Thymnias and Schoenus, the last enclosing the town of Hyda. In the gulf somewhere are Euthene or Eutane, Pitaeum, and an island: Elaeus or Elaeussa near Loryma. On the south shore is the Cynossema, or Onugnathos Promontory, opposite Symi
.

South of there is the

Pyrnos
between.

Then follow some cities that some assign to Lycia and some to Caria: Calynda on the Indus River, Crya and Alina in the Gulf of Glaucus (Katranci Bay or the Gulf of Makri), the Glaucus River being the border. Other Carian towns in the gulf are Clydae or Lydae and Aenus.

Inland Caria

Relief of an Amazonomachy from the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus.
The coast of Milas.

At the base of the east end of

Mylasa. Connected to the latter by a sacred way are Labraunda and Sinuri. Around Stratonicea is also Lagina as well as Panamara, Tendeba and Astragon
.

Further inland towards

Maeander and Alinda. To the east is the religious centre Hyllarima. At the confluence of the Maeander and the Harpasus is Harpasa (Arpaz). At the confluence of the Maeander and the Orsinus, Corsymus or Corsynus is Antioch on the Maeander and on the Orsinus in the mountains a border town with Phrygia, Gordiutichos ("Gordius' Fort") near Geyre. Founded by the Leleges and called Ninoe it became Megalopolis ("Big City") and Aphrodisias, sometime capital of Caria.[citation needed
]

Other towns on the Orsinus are Timeles and Plarasa.

Cibyra
.

History

Theatre at Halicarnassus in Bodrum, with the Bodrum Castle seen in the background.
The Sebasteion of Aphrodisias

Bronze Age

Further information: Karkiya

Caria is often identified with the Bronze Age region of Karkiya (or Karkisa) known from Hittite texts, though this identification is uncertain.[6][7][8]

Greek settlement

A kylix found in Milas on display at Milas Museum

Caria was settled by Greek immigrants in the

protogeometric pottery[citation needed] which appears in the area around 1100 BC, along with other markers of Greek material culture.[9]

The coast of Caria was part of the

Doric hexapolis ("six-cities").[citation needed
]

An account also cited that Aristotle claimed Caria, as a naval empire, occupied Epidaurus and Hermione and that this was confirmed when the Athenians discovered the graves of the dead from Delos.[10] Half of it were identified as Carians based on the characteristics of the weapons they were buried with.[10]

Lydian province

The expansionism of Lydia under Croesus (560-546 BC) incorporated Caria briefly into Lydia before it fell before the Achaemenid advance.

Persian satrapy

Maussolos
as Achaemenid Satrap of Caria. Circa 377/6-353/2 BC

Caria was then incorporated into the Persian

Alinda and Alabanda. Caria participated in the Ionian Revolt (499–493 BC) against the Persian rule.[11]

Artemisia, Queen of Halicarnassus, and commander of the Carian contingent, at the Battle of Salamis, 480 BC. Wilhelm von Kaulbach[12]
Coin of Caria, Achaemenid Period. Circa 350-334 BC.
Achaemenid army, circa 480 BC. Relief on the tomb of Xerxes I
.

During the

Thracian, but a Carian woman and her name was Euterpe (Eυτέρπη), and Neanthes (Νεάνθης) adds that she was from Halicarnassus in Caria.".[14]

After the unsuccessful Persian invasion of Greece in 479 BC, the cities of Caria became members of the Athenian-led

Xanthos trilingual inscription
.

The Carians were incorporated into the

Macedonian Empire following the conquests of Alexander the Great and the Siege of Halicarnassus in 334 BC.[15]

Halicarnassus was the location of the famed Mausoleum dedicated to Mausolus, a satrap of Caria between 377–353 BC, by his wife, Artemisia II of Caria. The monument became one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and from which the Romans named any grand tomb a mausoleum.

Macedonian empire

Caria was conquered by

of Macedon in 334 BC with the help of the former queen of the land Ada of Caria who had been dethroned by the Persian Empire and actively helped Alexander in his conquest of Caria on condition of being reinstated as queen. After their capture of Caria, she declared Alexander as her heir.[15]

Roman-Byzantine province

Marble head of a goddess, found in the Hadrianic Baths of Aphrodisias, 2nd century AD.

As part of the Roman Empire the name of Caria was still used for the geographic region. The territory administratively belonged to the province of Asia. During the administrative reforms of the 4th century this province was abolished and divided into smaller units. Caria became a separate province as part of the Diocese of Asia.

Chonae) on the extreme inland fringe of the country, which itself pursued its pagan customs. It appears that it was not until Christianity was officially adopted in Constantinople that the new religion made any real headway in Caria.[16]

The Temple of Zeus Lepsinos at Euromus was built on the site of an earlier Carian temple in the 2nd century AD during the reign of the emperor Hadrian.

Dissolution under the Byzantine Empire and passage to Turkish rule

In the 7th century, Byzantine provinces were abolished and the new military

Menteşe Dynasty
in the early 13th century.

There are only indirect clues regarding the population structure under the Menteşe and the parts played in it by Turkish migration from inland regions and by local conversions. The first

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 and eighteen thousand, many of them reportedly recent immigrants from the islands. Most chose to leave in 1919, before the population exchange
.

Archaeology

In July 2021, archaeologists led by Abuzer Kızıl have announced the discovery of two 2,500-year-old marble statues and an inscription during excavations at the Temple of Zeus Lepsynos in Euromus. According to Abuzer Kızıl, one of the statues was naked while other was wearing armor made of leather and a short skirt. Both of the statues were depicted with a lion in their hands.[18][19][20]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Caria" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  2. ^ a b The Histories, Book I Section 171.
  3. ^ Cramer (1832), pages 170-224.
  4. ^ Page 170.
  5. ^ Page 176.
  6. ISBN 978-90-04-25279-0
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  7. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195376142.013.0015
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  8. ISBN 9781107194175
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  9. ISBN 978-90-04-25279-0
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  10. ^
    ISBN 9781107434585
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  11. ^ Herodotus Histories Book 5: Terpsichore
  12. ^ On the identification with Artemisia: "...Above the ships of the victorious Greeks, against which Artemisia, the Xerxes' ally, sends fleeing arrows...". Original German description of the painting: "Die neue Erfindung, welche Kaulbach für den neuen hohen Beschützer zu zeichnen gedachte, war wahrscheinlich "die Schlacht von Salamis“. Ueber den Schiffen der siegreichen Griechen, gegen welche Artemisia, des Xerxes Bundesgenossin, fliehend Pfeile sendet, sieht man in Wolken die beiden Ajaxe" in Altpreussische Monatsschrift Nene Folge p.300
  13. ^ Herodotus Histories Book 8: Urania [19,22]
  14. ^ Themistocles By Plutarch "Yet Phanias writes that the mother of Themistocles was not of Thrace, but of Caria, and that her name was not Abrotonon, but Euterpe; and Neanthes adds farther that she was of Halicarnassus in Caria."
  15. ^
    ISBN 9780195170726
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  16. ISBN 0-87471-038-3
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  17. Muğla University. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 4 March 2011.
  18. ^ "2,500-year-old statues, inscription unearthed in western Turkey". Hürriyet Daily News. 13 July 2021. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
  19. ^ Gershon, Livia. "Archaeologists in Turkey Unearth 2,500-Year-Old Temple of Aphrodite". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
  20. ^ "2,500-year-old statues, inscription unearthed in western Turkey". www.aa.com.tr. Retrieved 31 August 2021.

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