Theangela (Ancient Greek: Θεάγγελα) was a town of ancient Caria. Upon the conquest of Caria by Alexander the Great, he placed it under the jurisdiction of Halicarnassus. It was birthplace of Philippus of Theangela, a 4th-century BCE historian.[1][2] It was a polis (city-state) and a member of the Delian League.[3] It was in a sympoliteia with Kildara and Thodosa.[4]
Its site is located near Etrim, Asiatic Turkey.[5][6]
^Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 5.29.
^Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae, 6.271; Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
^Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 1305. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
^Jeremy LaBuff (2016). Polis Expansion and Elite Power in Hellenistic Karia. Lexington Books. pp. 122–123.
^Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 61, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
^Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
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