Carians - Wikipedia
WEBThe Carians (/ ˈ k ɛər i ə n z /; Ancient Greek: Κᾶρες, Kares, plural of Κάρ, Kar) were the ancient inhabitants of Caria in southwest Anatolia, who spoke the Carian language.
Caria - Wikipedia
WEBCaria ( / ˈkɛəriə /; from Greek: Καρία, Karia; Turkish: Karya) was a region of western Anatolia extending along the coast from mid- Ionia ( Mycale) south to Lycia and east to Phrygia. [1] . The Carians were described by Herodotus as being Anatolian mainlanders and they called themselves Caria because of the name of their king. [2] .
Carian language - Wikipedia
WEBThe Carian language is an extinct language of the Luwic subgroup of the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family, spoken by the Carians. The known corpus is small, and the majority comes from Egypt .
Caria | History, Mausolus, & Map | Britannica
WEBCaria, ancient district of southwestern Anatolia. One of the most thoroughly Hellenized districts, its territory included Greek cities along its Aegean shore and a mountainous interior bounded by Lydia in the north and by Phrygia and Lycia in the east. The non-Greek Carians of the interior.
Caria - Livius
WEBCaria: the southwest of modern Turkey, incorporated in c.545 BCE the ancient Achaemenid empire as the satrapy Karkâ. Its capital was Halicarnassus (modern Bodrum). Early history. Map of Caria. Caria and the Carians are mentioned for the first time in the cuneiform texts of the Old Assyrian and Hittite Empires, i.e., between c.1800 and c.1200.
Tracing the footsteps of the ancient Carians | Anthology | Luxury ...
WEBDec 22, 2023 · The Carians were one of the indigenous peoples of the Aegean region and are believed to have originated in the Bronze Age (3300–1200 BC). Their civilisation flourished during the first millennium BC when they established a series of city-states and settlements along the south-western coast of Anatolia, the main centres being …
Carian language | Carian Script, Anatolian Origin & Ancient Greek
WEBCarian language, an extinct Anatolian language once spoken in Caria, an ancient district of southwest Anatolia. Most evidence for the language comes from Egypt, where Carian mercenaries in the service of the pharaohs from the 7th to 5th centuries bce left behind more than a hundred tomb inscriptions and numerous instances of graffiti.
The Carian Villages - Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
WEBSep 15, 2018 · The possibility that Carians fought in Cambyses’ army during the conquest of Egypt is raised by a text recording ‘back-payment of “Egyptian rations from the time of Cambyses”’ but the Borsippean Carians are not attested after the year Darius 9 (Waerzeggers 2006: 8 and text no. 2 = BM 26659). Alternatively, Carians may have …
CARIA – Encyclopaedia Iranica
WEBDec 15, 1990 · CARIA – Encyclopaedia Iranica. CARIA, Achaemenid satrapy in the area of southwestern Turkey. Caria was under Achaemenid rule first as a part of the satrapy of Sparda (Lydia; 540s-390s B.C.), then as a separate satrapy (390s-30s B.C.) under the Hecatomnid family.
Halicarnassus - World History Encyclopedia
WEBJun 29, 2023 · Halicarnassus (modern Bodrum, Turkey) was an ancient Ionian Greek city in the region of Caria, located on the coast of Anatolia. It is best known as the birthplace of Herodotus (l. c. 484-425/413 BCE), the 'Father of History', and as the site of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
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