"Karian" redirects here. For places in Iran, see Karian, Iran.
Location of Caria within the classical regions of Asia MinorCarian soldier of the Achaemenid army c. 480 BC. Tomb of Xerxes I.[1]Ancient copy of the cult image of a local goddess hellenized as Aphrodite at Aphrodisias
The Carians (/ˈkɛəriənz/; Ancient Greek: Κᾶρες, Kares, plural of Κάρ, Kar[2]) were the ancient inhabitants of Caria in southwest Anatolia, who spoke the Carian language.
^Achaemenid soldiers
^Κάρ. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project
spoke the Carian language. It is not clear when the Carians enter into history. The definition is dependent on corresponding Caria and the Carians to the...
The 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...
the Lydians. The Carians spoke Carian, a native Anatolian language closely related to Luwian. Also closely associated with the Carians were the Leleges...
The Carian alphabets are a number of regional scripts used to write the Carian language of western Anatolia. They consisted of some 30 alphabetic letters...
The Carian Trail (Turkish: Karia Yolu) is an 820 km long-distance footpath exploring the South Western corner of Turkey through the modern provinces of...
the classical era region of Caria or to a region where ancestors of the Carians lived at the time, though this identification has not been firmly established...
century BC, Greek-Carian bilinguals in Caria suggest the Carians shared their former ancestral land amicably with the Greeks. The Carian language is not...
combine with the existing Salmacis, an older town of the native Leleges and Carians, and site of the later citadel. The first settlers were originally Dorians...
In Greek mythology, the naiads (/ˈnaɪædz, ˈneɪædz, -ədz/; Greek: ναϊάδες, translit. naïádes) are a type of female spirit, or nymph, presiding over fountains...
link the Leleges to the Carians of south-west Anatolia. Homer names the Leleges among the Trojan allies alongside the Carians, Pelasgians, Paeonians and...
alliances with the dynasts of the various city-states of the Carians which required the Lydian and Carian rulers had to support each other, and his successors...
between words." Omniglot.com – Carian "The Carian alphabet appears in about 100 pieces of graffiti inscriptions left by Carian mercenaries who served in Egypt...
Milesians Ampé, on the mouth of Tigris near the Persian Gulf Darius I Carians and Sitacemians Babylonia Eretrians Ardericca in Susiana Darius I Beotians...
Condalos noted that the people of Lycia wore their hair long, unlike the Carians. He told his Lycian subjects that Artaxerxes demanded hair to make wigs...
Artemis at Ephesus) Mausoleum at Halicarnassus 351 BC Greeks, Persians, Carians (Satyros and Pythius of Priene) 12th–15th century AD Earthquakes Bodrum...
Herodotus in his Histories wrote that the Mysians were brethren of the Carians and the Lydians, originally Lydian colonists in their country, and as such...
in Ionia (see below). Hearing that the Carians had rebelled, Daurises led his army south into Caria. The Carians gathered at the "White Pillars", on the...
from Carians. Strabo says that Androclus was the leader of the Ionians and the only legitimate son of Codrus. Cyaretus took Myus from the Carians. Damasichthon...
Herodotus, all the Ionians arrived in Asia Minor without women and took local Carians as wives. Unlike the austere and militaristic Dorians, the Ionians are...
ancient name was probably borrowed from Carian, a Luwic language native to pre-Greek Western Anatolia. The Carian name for Halicarnassus has been tentatively...
god of magic and medicine, Heka. Hecate possibly originated among the Carians of Anatolia, the region where most theophoric names invoking Hecate, such...
mountains near the coast of Caria. In ancient times, it was held sacred by Carians and Mysians alike. The site amid its sacred plane trees was enriched in...
Mysians, Mariandyni, Chalybes, Paphlagonians, Thyni and Bithyni Thracians, Carians, Ionians, Dorians, Aeolians, and Pamphylians - it is very likely that a...
Xerxes to Carian rulers, and then kept as a precious object. In particular, the precious jar may have been offered by Xerxes to the Carian dynast Artemisia...
Maeonians, Miletians, Lycians led by Sarpedon and Carians. Nothing is said of the Trojan language; the Carians are specifically said to be barbarian-speaking...
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