Iasos
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Iasos or Iassos, also in Latinized form Iasus or Iassus, was a Greek city in ancient Caria located on the Gulf of Iasos, opposite the modern town of Güllük, Turkey. It was originally on an island, but
The hill with the acropolis, the bouleuterion (center) and a Hellenistic tower (right) near the agora of Iasos.
Interior of bouleuterion
View of agora from bouleuterion
Ruins on the agora, possibly from the basilica
Carians
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The Carians were the ancient inhabitants of Caria in southwest Anatolia, who spoke the Carian language.
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…archaeology shows a much longer history. According to the ancient reports, the Argive colonists had sustained severe losses in a war with the native Carians, so they invited the son of Neleus, who had previously founded Miletus, to come to their assistance. The town appears on that occasion to have received…
Location of Caria within the classical regions of Asia Minor
Carian soldier of the Achaemenid army c. 480 BC. Tomb of Xerxes I.
Ancient copy of the cult image of a local Hellenistic goddess as Aphrodite at Aphrodisias
Archaeologists studying a Carian tomb in Milas, Beçin.