Listed 32 sub titles with search on: Ancient literary sources for wider area of: "MUGLA Province TURKEY" .
ALIKARNASSOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
In Caria, Herodutus' birthplace, a colony of Troezen, Artemisia, queen of, mausoleum at.
KALYNDA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Ιn the frontier of Lycia, Calyndians in Xerxes' fleet.
KAVNOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Near Caria and Lycia, origin of its people, attacked and subdued by the Medes, participation in Ionian revolt against Darius.
KERAMOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
In Caria (Paus. 6.13.3).
KNIDOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
City in Caria, on the Triopian promontory, intersected by arm of sea, founded by Triopas, Conon defeats Lacedaemonian fleet at, a Dorian town, attempted restoration by Cnidians of a Tarentine exile.
LAVRANDA (Ancient sanctuary) TURKEY
In Caria; temple of a war-god there.
MYLASSA (Ancient city) TURKEY
A town in Caria; temple of Zeus there.
MYNDOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
In Caria, a colony of Troezen.
STRATONIKIA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Formerly called Chrysaoris.
SYRNA (Ancient city) TURKEY
In Caria.
ALIKARNASSOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Then (from Cnicus) to Halicarnassus, the royal residence of the dynasts of Caria, which was formerly called Zephyra. Here is the tomb of Mausolus, one of the Seven Wonders, a monument erected by Artemisia in honor of her husband; and here is the fountain called Salmacis, which has the slanderous repute, for what reason I do not know, of making effeminate all who drink from it. It seems that the effeminacy of man is laid to the charge of the air or of the water; yet it is not these, but rather riches and wanton living, that are the cause of effeminacy. Halicarnassus has an acropolis; and off the city lies Arconnesus. Its colonizers were, among others, Anthes and a number of Troezenians. Natives of Halicarnassus have been: Herodotus the historian, whom they later called a Thurian, because he took part in the colonization of Thurii; and Heracleitus the poet, the comrade of Callimachus; and, in my time, Dionysius the historian.
This city, too, met a reverse when it was forcibly seized by Alexander. For Hecatomnus, the king of the Carians, had three sons, Mausolus and Hidrieus and Pixodarus, and two daughters. Mausolus, the eldest of the brothers, married Artemisia, the elder of the daughters, and Hidrieus, the second son, married Ada, the other sister. Mausolus became king and at last, childless, he left the empire to his wife, by whom the above-mentioned tomb was erected. But she pined away and died through grief for her husband, and Hidrieus then became ruler. He died from a disease and was succeeded by his wife Ada; but she was banished by Pixodarus, the remaining son of Hecatomnos. Having espoused the side of the Persians, he sent for a satrap to share the empire with him; and when he too departed from life, the satrap took possession of Halicarnassus. And when Alexander came over, the satrap sustained a siege.
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo (ed. H. L. Jones, 1924), Cambridge. Harvard University Press. Cited July 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
ASTYPALEA (Ancient city) TURKEY
On the coast of the mainland near the Myndian territory lies Astypalaea, a promontory; and also Zephyrium.
ELESA (Island) TURKEY
Off the Peraea lies the island Elaeussa, distant one hundred and twenty stadia from Rhodes.
FYSKOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Next (from Caunus) one comes to Physcus, a small town, which has a harbor and a sacred precinct of Leto; and then to Loryma ..
IASSOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Then one comes to Iasus, which lies on an island close to the mainland. It has a harbor; and the people gain most of their livelihood from the sea, for the sea here is well supplied with fish, but the soil of the country is rather poor. Indeed, people fabricate stories of this kind in regard to Iasus: When a citharoede was giving a recital, the people all listened for a time, but when the bell that announced the sale of fish rang, they all left him and went away to the fish market, except one man who was hard of hearing. The citharoede, therefore, went up to him and said: ‘Sir, I am grateful to you for the honor you have done me and for your love of music, for all the others except you went away the moment they heard the sound of the bell.’ And the man said, ‘What's that you say? Has the bell already rung?’ And when the citharoede said ‘Yes,’ the man said, ‘Fare thee well,’ and himself arose and went away.
KARYANDA (Ancient city) TURKEY
On the coast of the mainland near the Myndian territory lies Astypalaea, a promontory; and also Zephyrium. Then forthwith one comes to Myndus, which has a harbor; and after Myndus to Bargylia, which is also a city; between the two is Caryanda, a harbor, and also an island bearing the same name, where the Caryandians lived. Here was born Scylax, the ancient historian. Near Bargylia is the temple of Artemis Cindyas, round which the rain is believed to fall without striking it. And there was once a place called Cindye. From Bargylia there was a man of note, the Epicurean Protarchus, who was the teacher of Demetrius called Lacon.
KAVNOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
The city has dockyards, and a harbor that can be closed. Above the city, on a height, lies Imbrus, a stronghold .. the city have foul air in summer, as also in autumn, because of the heat and the abundance of fruits. And indeed little tales of the following kind are repeated over and over, that Stratonicus the citharist, seeing that the Caunians were pitiably pale, said that this was the thought of the poet in the verse, ‘Even as is the generation of leaves, such is that also of men’; and when people complained that he was jeering at the city as though it were sickly, he replied, ‘Would I be so bold as to call this city sickly, where even the corpses walk about?; The Caunians once revolted from the Rhodians, but by a judicial decision of the Romans they were restored to them. And there is extant a speech of Molon entitled Against the Caunians. It is said that they speak the same language as the Carians, but that they came from Crete and follow usages of their own.
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo (ed. H. L. Jones, 1924), Cambridge. Harvard University Press. Cited Feb 2003 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
KINDYI (Ancient city) TURKEY
Near Bargylia is the temple of Artemis Cindyas, round which the rain is believed to fall without striking it. And there was once a place called Cindye. (Strab. 14,2,20).
KNIDOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Then to Cnidus, with two harbors, one of which can be closed, can receive triremes, and is a naval station for twenty ships. Off it lies an island which is approximately seven stadia in circuit, rises high, is theatre-like, is connected by moles with the mainland, and in a way makes Cnidus a double city, for a large part of its people live on the island, which shelters both harbors. Opposite it, in the high sea, is Nisyrus. Notable Cnidians were: first, Eudoxus the mathematician, one of the comrades of Plato; then Agatharchides, one of the Peripatetics, a historian; and, in my own time, Theopompus, the friend of the deified Caesar, being a man of great influence with him, and his son Artemidorus. Thence, also, came Ctesias, who served Artaxerxes as physician and wrote the works entitled Assyrica and Persica. Then, after Cnidus, one comes to Ceramus and Bargasa, small towns situated above the sea.
LAVRANDA (Ancient sanctuary) TURKEY
LORYMA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Next (from Caunus) one comes to Physcus, a small town, which has a harbor and a sacred precinct of Leto; and then to Loryma, a rugged coast, and to the highest mountain in that part of the country; and on top of the mountain is Phoenix, a stronghold bearing the same name as the mountain; and off the mountain, at a distance of four stadia, lies Elaeussa, an island, which is about eight stadia in circuit.
MYLASSA (Ancient city) TURKEY
It is situated in an exceedingly fertile plain; and above the plain, towering into a peak, rises a mountain, which has a most excellent quarry of white marble. Now this quarry is of no small advantage, since it has stone in abundance and close at hand, for building purposes and in particular for the building of temples and other public works; accordingly this city, as much as any other, is in every way beautifully adorned with porticoes and temples. But one may well be amazed at those who so absurdly founded the city at the foot of a steep and commanding crag. Accordingly, one of the commanders, amazed at the fact, is said to have said, ‘If the man who founded this city, was not afraid, was he not even ashamed?’ ... The city is nearest to the sea at Physcus; and this is their seaport
MYNDOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
On the coast of the mainland near the Myndian territory lies Astypalaea, a promontory; and also Zephyrium. Then forthwith one comes to Myndus, which has a harbor; and after Myndus to Bargylia, which is also a city; between the two is Caryanda, a harbor, and also an island bearing the same name, where the Caryandians lived. Here was born Scylax, the ancient historian. Near Bargylia is the temple of Artemis Cindyas, round which the rain is believed to fall without striking it. And there was once a place called Cindye. From Bargylia there was a man of note, the Epicurean Protarchus, who was the teacher of Demetrius called Lacon.
STRATONIKIA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Stratoniceia is a settlement of Macedonians. And this too was adorned with costly improvements by the kings. There are two temples in the country of the Stratoniceians, of which the most famous, that of Hecate, is at Lagina; and it draws great festal assemblies every year. And near the city is the temple of Zeus Chrysaoreus, the common possession of all Carians, whither they gather both to offer sacrifice and to deliberate on their common interests. Their League, which consists of villages, is called ‘Chrysaorian.’ And those who present the most villages have a preference in the vote, like, for example, the people of Ceramus. The Stratoniceians also have a share in the League, although they are not of the Carian stock, but because they have villages belonging to the Chrysaorian League.
SYANGELA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Of the eight cities, Mausolus united six into one city, Halicarnassus, as Callisthenes tells us, but kept Syangela and Myndus as they were (Strab. 13.1.59).
TELMISSOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
After Daedala, then, I mean the mountain in Lycia, one comes to a Lycian town near it, Telmessus, and to Telmessis, a promontory with a harbor.
TLOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Artemidorus said that the six largest were Xanthus, Patara, Pinara, Olympus, Myra, and Tlos, the last named being situated near the pass that leads over into Cibyra.
VARGYLIA (Ancient city) TURKEY
On the coast of the mainland near the Myndian territory lies Astypalaea, a promontory; and also Zephyrium. Then forthwith one comes to Myndus, which has a harbor; and after Myndus to Bargylia, which is also a city; between the two is Caryanda, a harbor, and also an island bearing the same name, where the Caryandians lived. Here was born Scylax, the ancient historian. Near Bargylia is the temple of Artemis Cindyas, round which the rain is believed to fall without striking it. And there was once a place called Cindye. From Bargylia there was a man of note, the Epicurean Protarchus, who was the teacher of Demetrius called Lacon.
ZEFYRION (Ancient location) TURKEY
On the coast of the mainland near the Myndian territory lies Astypalaea, a promontory; and also Zephyrium.
TICHIOUSSA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Meanwhile Alcibiades came on horseback to Teichiussa in the Milesian territory, the point of the gulf in which they had put in for the night, and told them of the battle, in which he had fought in person by the side of the Milesians and Tissaphernes, and advised them, if they did not wish to sacrifice Ionia and their cause, to fly to the relief of Miletus and hinder its investment.
TRIOPION (Ancient sanctuary) TURKEY
Triopium is a promontory of Cnidus and sacred to Apollo
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