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KARIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
Carura (Ta Karoura), a town which was on the north-eastern limit
of Caria (Strab. p. 663); its position east of the range of Cadmus assigns it
to Phrygia, under which country Strabo describes it. It was on the south side
of the Maeander, 20 M. P. west of Laodiceia, according to the Table, and on the
great road along the valley of the Maeander from Laodiceia to Ephesus. The place
is identified by the hot springs, about 12 miles NW. of Denizli, which have been
described by Pococke and Chandler. Strabo (p. 578) observes that Carura contained
many inns (pandocheia), which is explained by the fact of its being on a line
of great traffic, by which the wool and other products of the interior were taken
down to the coast. He adds that it has hot springs, some in the Maeander, and
some on the banks of the river. All this tract is subject to earthquakes; and
there was a story, reported by Strabo, that as a brothel keeper was lodging in
the inns with a great number of his women, they were all swallowed up one night
by the earth opening. Chandler (Asia Minor, c. 65) observed on the spot a jet
of hot water, which sprung up several inches from the ground; and also the remains
of an ancient bridge over the river. On the road between Carura and Laodiceia
was the temple of Men Carus, a Carian deity; and in the time of Strabo there was
a noted school of medicine here, under the presidency of Zeuxis. This school was
of the sect of Herophilus. (Strab. p. 580.) Chandler discovered some remains on
the road to Laodiceia, which, he supposes, may be the traces of this temple; but
he states nothing that confirms the conjecture.
Herodotus (vii. 30) mentions a place called Cydrara, to which Xerxes
came on his road from Colossae to Sardes. It was the limit of Lydia and Phrygia,
and King Croesus fixed a stele there with an inscription on it, which declared
the boundary. Leake (Asia Minor, &c. p. 251) thinks that the Cydrara of Herodotus
may be Carura. It could not be far off; but the boundary between Lydia and Phrygia
would perhaps not be placed south of the Maeander in these parts.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited September 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Aphrodisias, a promontory on the SW. coast of Caria (Mela, i. 16; Plin. v. 28), between the gulfs of Schoenus and Thymnias. The modern name is not mentioned by Hamilton, who passed round it (Researches, vol. ii. p. 72). It has sometimes been confounded with the Cynos Sema of Strabo, which is Cape Volpo.
Arconnesus (Arkonnesos), a small island of Caria, near to the mainland,
and south of Halicarnassus. It is now called Orak Ada. When Alexander besieged
Halicarnassus, some of the inhabitants fled to this island. (Arrian, Anab. i.
23; Strabo, p. 656; Chart of the Prom. of Halicarnassus, &c., in Beaufort's Karamania;
Hamilton, Researches, ii. 34.)
Strabo (p. 643) mentions an island, Aspis, between Teos and Lebedus, and
he adds that it was also called Arconnesus. Chandler, who saw the island from
the mainland, says that it is called Carabash. Barbie du Bocage (Translation of
Chandler's Travels, i. p. 422) says that it is called in the charts Sainte-Euphnemie.
This seems to be the island Macris of Livy (xxxvii. 28), for he describes it as
opposite to the promontory on which Myonnesus was situated. Cramer (Asia Minor,
vol. i. p. 355) takes Macris to be a different island from Aspis.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited September 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Lethaeus (Lethaios), a small river of Caria, which has its sources
in Mount Pactyes, and after a short course from north to south discharges itself
into the Maeander, a little to the south-east of Magnesia. (Strab. xii. p. 554,
xiv. p. 647; Athen. xv. p. 683.) Arundell (Seven Churches, p. 57) describes the
river which he identifies with the ancient Lethaeus, as a torrent rushing along
over rocky ground, and forming many waterfalls.
Attuda (Attouda: Eth. Attoudeus), a town of Caria, or of Phrygia, as some suppose, noticed only by Hierocles and the later authorities. But there are coins of the place with the epigraph Hiera Boule Attoudeon, of the time of Augustus and later. The coins show that the Men Carus was worshipped there. An inscription is said to show that the site is that of Ypsili Hissar, south-east of Aphrodisias in Caria. (Cramer, Asia Minor, vol. ii. p. 55; Forbiger, vol. ii. p. 235.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited July 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Suagela (Souagela), a town of Caria, in which was shown the tomb of Car, the ancestor
of all the Carians; the place was in fact believed to have received its name from
this circumstance, for in Carian soua signified a tomb, and gelas a king. (Steph.
B. s. v.) Strabo, who calls the place Syangela (xiii. p. 611), states that this
town and Myndus were preserved at the time when Mausolus united six other towns
to form Halicarnassus.
LATMOS (Mountain) KARIA
Latmicus Sinus (ho Latmikos kolpos), a bay on the western coast of
Caria, deriving its name from Mount Latmus, which rises at the head of the gulf.
It was formed by the mouth of the river Maeander which flowed into it from the
north-east. Its breadth, between Miletus, on the southern head-land, and Pyrrha
in the north, amounted to 30 stadia, and its whole length, from Miletus to Heracleia,
100 stadia. (Strab. xiv. p. 635.) The bay now exists only as an inland lake, its
mouth having been closed up by the deposits brought down by the Maeander, a circumstance
which has misled some modern travellers in those parts to confound the lake of
Baffi the ancient Latmic gulf, with the lake of Myus. (Leake, Asia Minor, p. 239
; Chandler, c. 53.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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