Kildara

Kildara

Kildara

Ancient Carian town

Kildara (Ancient Greek: Κιλδαρα) or Killara (Κιλλαρα) was a town of ancient Caria. It was a polis (city-state) and was in a sympoliteia with Theangela and Thodosa.[1] Kildara is the find-spot of one inscription in the Carian language using a unique local type of Carian script.[2][3]

Its site is located near Asardağ, Asiatic Turkey.[4][5]

References

  1. [1]
    Jeremy LaBuff (2016). Polis Expansion and Elite Power in Hellenistic Karia. Lexington Books. pp. 122–123.
  2. [2]
    Ignacio-Javier Adiego Laraja (2007). The Carian Language. Leiden: Brill. pp. 141–142.
  3. [3]
    Alice Mouton; Ian Rutherford; Ilya Yakubovich, eds. (2013). Luwian Identities. Leiden: Brill. pp. 463–464.
  4. [4]
    Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 61, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
  5. [5]
    Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

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