| Caria: the southwest of modern Turkey, incorporated in the ancient
Persian empire as the satrapy Karkâ. The Greek town Halicarnassus
(modern Bodrum) was its capital. According to the Greek writer Plutarch,
the Persians called the Carians 'cocks' because they had comblike crests
on their helmets (Life of Artaxerxes II,
10). |
