The territory of Caria, one of Anatolia's…

The territory of Caria, one of Anatolia's most thoroughly Hellenized districts, includes Ionian Greek cities (Myus and Priene) along its Aegean shore and a mountainous interior bounded by Lydia in the north and by Phrygia and Lycia in the east.

The non-Greek Carians of the interior consider themselves an indigenous people and claim kinship with the Lydians and Mysians, with whom they share a common worship.

Caria, like most of Ionia, in about 546 BCE passes from Lydian to Persian rule.