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Caria
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Car·i·a  (kâr-)
An ancient region of southwest Asia Minor with a coastline on the Aegean Sea. It was settled by Dorian and Ionian colonists and conquered by Alexander the Great in 334 b.c.
Caria [ˈkɛərɪə]
n
(Placename) an ancient region of SW Asia Minor, on the Aegean Sea: chief cities were Halicarnassus and Cnidus: corresponds to the present-day Turkish districts of S Aydin and W Muǧla


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Carians in Sardis, JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL STUDIES 94: 96-99.
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the Carians found peace through marriage, Caesar was bound to Pompey through it, and Alexander could not have joined Asia to Europe by any other means.
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