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LARANDA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Laranda (ta Laranda: Eth. Larandeus, f. Larandis; Larenda or Karaman),
one of the most important towns of Lycaonia, 400 stadia to the south-east of Iconium.
Strabo (xii. p. 569) states that the town belonged to Antipater of Derbe, which
shows that for a time it was governed by native princes. Respecting its history
in antiquity scarcely anything is known beyond the fact that it was taken by storm,
and destroyed by Perdiccas (Diod. xviii. 22) ; that it was afterwards rebuilt,
and on account of the fertility of its neighbourhood became one of the chief seats
of the Isaurian pirates. (Amm. Marc. xiv. 2; comp. Steph. B. s. v.; Ptol. v. 6.
§ 17; Hierocl. p. 675; Euseb. Hist. Eccl. vi. 19.) Suidas says that Laranda was
the birthplace of Nestor, an epic poet, and father of Pisander, a poet of still
greater celebrity; but when he calls the former Larandeus ek Lukias, he probably
mistook Lycia for Lycaonia. Leake (As. Min. p. 100) states that he found no Greek
remains at Laranda nor are there any coins belonging to the place. The ancient
name, Larenda, is still in common use among the Christians, and is even retained
in the firmans of the Porte; but its more general name, Karaman, is derived from
a Turkish chief of the same name; for it was at one time the capital of a Turkish
kingdom, which lasted from the time of the partition of the dominion of the Seljukian
monarchs of Iconium until 1486, when it was conquered by the emperor Bayazid II.
At present the town is but a poor place, with some manufactures of coarse cotton
and woollen stuffs.
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
(ta Laranda). A considerable town in the south of Lycaonia, at the northern foot of Mount Taurus, used by the Isaurian robbers as one of their strongholds.
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