The territory of Caria, one of Anatolia's…
549 BCE to 538 BCE
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.