Lydae
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Town of ancient Caria or Lycia
Lydae or Lydai (
Rhodian Peraea. Ptolemy notes the city in Lycia under the name Chydae.[1] The Stadiasmus Maris Magni calls the city Clydae or Klydai (Κλυδαί) and places it in Caria.[2]
The family of
demoi (subordinate urban units) of Lydae, Arymaxa and Kreneis are known in Roman imperial times; they used to be separate communities that merged with Lydae via sympoliteia
.
Its site is located on the modern
The site was identified by the British antiquaries Theodore and Mabel Bent in March 1888.[7]
References
- ^ Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 5.3.2.
- ^ Karl Müller: Geographi Graeci Minores (= Scriptorum graecorum bibliotheca. Band 45). Band 1. Paris 1855, S. 494 Nr. 295 f. (Digitalisat).
- ^ Tituli Asiae Minoris 2,1 138.
- ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
- ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
- ISBN 978-3-7749-3146-6.)
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link - ^ J.T. Bent, ‘Discoveries in Asia Minor’, The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1888, Vol. 9, pp. 82-7; The Travel Chronicles of Mrs J Theodore Bent, vol. 1, Oxford, 2006, pp. 225-54.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Clydae". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
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