12 Facts About Caria

Caria was a region of western Anatolia extending along the coast from mid-Ionia south to Lycia and east to Phrygia.

Coastal Caria begins with Didyma south of Miletus, but Miletus had been placed in the pre-Greek Caria.

Tabae was at various times attributed to Phrygia, Lydia and Caria and seems to have been occupied by mixed nationals.

Name of Caria appears in a number of early languages: Hittite Karkija, Babylonian Karsa, Elamite and Old Persian Kurka.

Caria arose as a Neo-Hittite kingdom around the 11th century BC.

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Greek apoikism in Caria took place mostly on the coast, as well as in the interior in great number, and groups of cities and towns were organized in local federations.

Caria was then incorporated into the Persian Achaemenid Empire as a satrapy in 545 BC.

Caria participated in the Ionian Revolt against the Persian rule.

Caria told them to come and be on his side or not to participate at the battles, but if they were bound down by too strong a compulsion to be able to make revolt, when the battles begin, to be purposely slack.

Caria became a separate province as part of the Diocese of Asia.

The region corresponding to ancient Caria was captured by the Turks under the Mentese Dynasty in the early 13th century.

Still named Mentese until the early decades of the 20th century, the kazas corresponding to ancient Caria are recorded by sources such as G Sotiriadis and S Anagiostopoulou 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.