a city in the interior of Caria

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• Caria — (Turkish Karya, Ancient Greek, Καρία) was a region of western Anatolia extending along the coast from mid Ionia (Mycale) south to Lycia and east to Phrygia. The Ionian and Dorian Greeks colonized the west of it and joined the Carian population in …   Wikipedia

• History of the Cyclades — The Cyclades (Greek: Κυκλάδες / Kykládes ) are Greek islands located in the southern part of the Aegean Sea. The archipelago contains some 2,200 islands, islets and rocks; just 33 islands are inhabited. For the ancients, they formed a circle… …   Wikipedia

• Alexander the Great — 356 323 B.C., king of Macedonia 336 323: conqueror of Greek city states and of the Persian empire from Asia Minor and Egypt to India. * * * or Alexander III born 356 BC, Pella, Macedonia died June 13, 323 BC, Babylon King of Macedonia (336–323)… …   Universalium

• almandine — [al′məndīt΄al′mən dēn΄, al′məndin΄] n. [ML alamandina < LL Alabandina (gemma), stone from Alabanda, city in the interior of CARIA] a purplish red variety of garnet, Fe3Al2 (SiO4) 3, used as an inexpensive gem and an abrasive: sometimes called… …   English World dictionary

• Carians — The Carians (Greek: Κάρες; Kares ) were the inhabitants of Caria.Greek mythologyAccording to Greek tradition, the Carians were named after an eponymous Car, one of their legendary early kings. [Herodotus. Histories , 1.171.] Classical Greeks… …   Wikipedia

• Stratonikeia — (Greek: Στρατoνικεια or Στρατoνικη; or per Stephanus of Byzantium: Στρατονίκεια) ndash; also transliterated as Stratonicea, Stratoniceia , Stratoniki, and Stratonike and Stratonice; earlier Idrias and Chrysaoris; and for a time Hadrianopolis… …   Wikipedia

• Stratonicea — • A titular see in Caria (Asia Minor) suffragan of Stauropolis Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Stratonicea     Stratonicea …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Leleges — The Leleges were one of the aboriginal peoples of southwest Anatolia (compare Pelasgians ), who were already there when the Indo European Hellenes emerged. The Leleges were overcome by the Carians, according to the earliest Greek historians,See… …   Wikipedia

• Asia (Roman province) — The Roman province of Asia, also called Phrygia, was an administrative unit added to the late Republic. It was a Senatorial province governed by a proconsul. The arrangement was unchanged in the reorganization of the Roman Empire in… …   Wikipedia

• Anatolia — /an euh toh lee euh/, n. a vast plateau between the Black and the Mediterranean seas: in ancient usage, synonymous with the peninsula of Asia Minor; in modern usage, applied to Turkey in Asia. Cf. Asia Minor. * * * or Asia Minor Turkish Anadolu… …   Universalium

• Asia Minor — • The peninsular mass that the Asiatic continent projects westward of an imaginary line running from the Gulf of Alexandretta (Issus) on the Mediterranean to the vicinity of Trebizond (Trapezus) on the Black Sea Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin… …   Catholic encyclopedia