Kildara

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 numerous inscriptions in the Carian language and is the name of one specific type of Carian script.[2]

Its site is located near Asardağ, Asiatic Turkey.[3][4]

References
  1. Jeremy LaBuff (2016). Polis Expansion and Elite Power in Hellenistic Karia. Lexington Books. pp. 122–123.
  2. Alice Mouton; Ian Rutherford; Ilya Yakubovich, eds. (2013). Luwian Identities. Leiden: Brill. pp. 463–464.
  3. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 61, and directory notes accompanying.
  4. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

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