Caria , old southwest district Anatolia . One of the most thoroughly Hellenized areas, its territory included Greek cities along the Aegean coast and a mountainous interior, the north from Lydia and to the east of Phrygia and Lycia The non-Greek interior Carians considered themselves Native people and claimed kinship with the Lydians and Mysians with whom they shared worship. Caria went 546 v . Chr . From Lydian to Persian rule over . West Carian dynasties participated in the unsuccessful Ionian Revolt against the Persian king Darius I. ( approx. 499–493) bc ), and the coastal towns were later converted to Greek Delian League drawn . early 4th century v . Chr . Was all of Caria as a separate satrapy under native rule back into the Achaemenian Empire Incorporated into Persia Hecatomnid Dynasty . One of the rulers, Mausoleum ( approx. 377–353 v . Ch. ) Misplaced the capital of Mylasa to Halicarnassus where his grave as one of seven wonders of the ancient world . After Alexander the Great the story of Caria is one of autonomous Cities and towns under the suzerainty of a series of Hellenistic rulers, until the entire region became a Roman province Asia incorporated (129 v . Ch. ).
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