Caria
Proper noun
Meaning
Caria
A historical region in the southwest corner of Asia Minor.
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Examples
According to Herodotus, Queen Artemisia of Caria pointed this out to Xerxes in the run-up to Salamis.
After the Persian conquest the River Maeander was regarded as its southern boundary, and during imperial Roman times Lydia comprised the country between Mysia and Caria on the one side and Phrygia and the Aegean Sea on the other.
It was bounded by Aeolia to the north, Lydia to the east and Caria to the south.