Caria

[kair-ee-uh]

noun

an ancient district in SW Asia Minor.

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Historical Examples of caria

What could be clearer, therefore, than that he was about to make a dash at the satrap's home in Caria?
Agesilaus
Xenophon
I will tell you what the Satrap of Caria said to me about that when I supped with him.
The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 1 (of 4)
Thomas Babington Macaulay
We shall speak of him in our account of Caria and the Troad.
The Geography of Strabo, Volume II (of 3)
Strabo
The Caunians were aborigines of Caria, although they affected to come from Crete.
The Geography of Strabo, Volume III (of 3)
Strabo
It comes from Caria, near Alabanda, and from Miletus in the same province.
De Re Metallica
Georgius Agricola

British Dictionary definitions for caria

Caria

noun

an ancient region of SW Asia Minor, on the Aegean Sea: chief cities were Halicarnassus and Cnidus: corresponds to the present-day Turkish districts of S Aydin and W Muğla

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