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	Halicarnassus once was the capital of Caria
		B.C. Caria's fate was thus primarily determined by the power struggles between the Seleucids and the Prolemies.
		Rhodes acquired a considerable portion of southwestern Asia Minor, and the pretensions of Attalus I of Pergamum extended south to Caria.
		For Caria the Empire was a period of stability and prosperity.
	www.bodrumpages.com /English/caria.html (1455 words)

	Caria - LoveToKnow 1911
		CARIA, an ancient district of Asia Minor, bounded on the N. by Ionia and Lydia, on the W. and S. by the Aegean Sea, and on the E. by Lycia and a small part of Phrygia.
		The country known as Caria was shared between the Carians proper and the Caunians, who were a wilder people, inhabiting the district between Caria and Lycia.
		But his capital, Halicarnassus, was taken after a siege, and the principality of Caria conferred by Alexander on Ada, a princess of the native dynasty.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Caria (892 words)

	CARIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		In the fifth century, the Greeks thought that the Carians had arrived in Caria from the islands of the Ionian Sea, whereas the Carians claimed to be indigenous.
		It is related to Lycian and Lydian, the languages spoken to the southeast and north of Caria.
		Caria is, like Greece, a country of mountains and valleys, poor in agricultural and other resources - in comparison with Egypt and Babylonia a backward country.
	www.turkishvillas.com /caria.htm (1588 words)

	Ada - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary)
		Ada), the daughter of Hecatomnus, satrap of Caria, and sister of Mausolus, Artemisia, Idrieus, and Pixodarus.
		On the death of her husband Ada became satrap of Caria, but was expelled by her brother Pixodarus in 340 BC; and on the death of the latter in 335 BC his son-in-law Orontobates received the satrapy of Caria from the Persian Great King.
		After taking Halicarnassus (modern Bodrum), Alexander committed the government of Caria to her; she, in turn, formally adopted Alexander as her son, ensuring that the rule of Caria passed unconditionally to him upon her eventual death.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /wcd/Ada (286 words)

	Caria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Caria remained intact through the great invasions that swept through Asia Minor without losing it's identity although that identity took a few batterings along the way.
		Queen Ada was installed as ruler and appears to have become something of a mother figure to the eccentrically talented Alexander.
		Towards the end of the Roman Empire and the birth of Byzantine, Caria began to decline, the population moved away, and the once great coastal cities lost their former power and some of their splendour.
	idcs0100.lib.iup.edu /WestCivI/caria.htm (966 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Ada of Caria
		Ada of Caria (4th century BC) came to power as the ruler of the large and profitable provincial capital of Halicarnassus in Caria, a satrapy of the Persian Empire at a time when Darius was actively seeking to conquer it.
		Upon Alexander the Great's conquest of Asia Minor, and his arrival at the border of Caria in 334 BC, Ada offered to adopt and pronounce Alexander as her rightful heir if he would take back the city and reinstate her.
		Ada was then reinstated as queen and grew close to Alexander.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Ada_of_Caria (229 words)

	Ada, Queen Of Caria
		Caria was in the western portion of what is now Turkey and though to some extent ruled by a royal family, it was a satrapy of Persia and had a Persian governor who was the real power in Caria.
		Ada survived her husband and ruled all of Cardia alone until her younger brother, Pixodarus usurped the throne and drove Ada from the capital, Halicarnassus.
		Ada’s husband, King Idieus was the man who had offered the hand of his daughter to Alexander’s brother, Arrhidaeus in 336 only to have his offer intercepted by Alexander who made the counter proposal that he would marry the princess.
	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Post/244111 (745 words)

	CARIA
		Caria's two border cities, Latmus, to which he gave the Greek name Heracleia, and Caunus, he had fortified with massive walls.
		B.C. Caria's fate was thus primarily determined by the power struggles between the Seleucids and the Prolemies.
		For Caria the Empire was a period of stability and prosperity.
	www.binlik.com /caria3-ger.htm (1373 words)

	Ahmet Cihan - Turkey
		The natives of Caria were the Carians and the Lelegians.
		The Caria region was put under the administration of the Hekatomnos family, who lived in Mylasa.
		Maussollos ruled Caria for 24 years, and was succeeded upon his death in 353 B.C. by his wife and sister Artemisia II.
	www.kusadasirealestate.com /Bodrum.htm (1014 words)

	Ada Hotel
		Ada was the only legitimate child of the poet Lord Byron and his wife, Annabella Milbanke, a cousin of Lady Caroline Lamb, with whom he had an affair that scandalized Regency London.
		Ada was named after Byron's half-sister, Augusta Leigh, by whom he was rumoured to have fathered a child.
		One source tells that Annabella was fond of mathematics and taught Ada this art at an early stage of her life.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/1/ada-hotel.html (734 words)

	Ada of Caria Information
		Ada of Caria (4th century BC) came to power as the ruler of the large and profitable provincial capital city of Halicarnassus in Caria, a satrapy of the Persian Empire at a time when Darius was actively seeking to conquer it.
		Ada was then reinstated as queen and grew close to Alexander.
		In his time with her, he would eventually refer to her as "mother", however Ada can be juxtaposed with Alexander's actual mother, Olympias, in that she was purportedly even-tempered and relatively emotionally stable.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Ada_of_Caria (190 words)

	Ancient Caria - All About Turkey
		Caria is one of those regions whose origins are unsure with conflicting evidence and ancient commentaries giving no definitive answer.
		In 377 BC Mausolus became satrap of Caria in Halicarnassos (today Bodrum) and he craftily developed Caria into an independent power without upsetting his Persian masters.
		Towards the end of the Roman Empire and the birth of Byzantine, Caria began to decline, the population moved away, and the once great coastal cities lost their former power and some of their splendor.
	www.allaboutturkey.com /karya.htm (1001 words)

	MAYAVILLAS - Bodrum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Herodotus, the famous historian and known as the father of history, was born in Halikarnassos (ancient name of Bodrum) in 484 B.C. and according to him Bodrum was founded by the Dorians in the 12th century B.C. The next settlers were Carian and Lelegians.In 546 B.C., the region came under Persian rule.
		In the beginning of the 4th century B.C., Caria region was ruled by the Satrap Hekatomnos and his son Mausolos.
		Mausoleum constructed as a funereal monument by Artemisia, queen of Caria after the death of her brother and husband Mausolos, the Satrap of Caria 352 B.C., the architect was Pytheos.
	www.mayavillas.com /bodrum.html (2128 words)

	Asia Minor Coins - Caria (Karia)
		Caria and the Carians are mentioned for the first time in the cuneiform texts of the Old Assyrian and Hittite Empires between ca.
		Caria is a country of mountains and valleys, poor in agricultural and other resources.
		He was succeeded by his son Maussolos, who took part in the so-called Revolt of the Satraps: Maussolos, Orontes of Armenia, Autophradates of Lydia and Datames of Cappadocia joined forces against their king, with support of the pharaohs of Egypt, Nectanebo I, Teos, and Nectanebo II.
	www.asiaminorcoins.com /caria.html (611 words)

	Caria
		Caria and the Carians are mentioned for the first time in the cuneiform texts of the Old Assyrian and Hittite Empires, i.e., between c.1800 and c.1200.
		In the fifth century, the Greeks thought that the Carians had arrived in Caria from the islands of the Ionian Sea, whereas the Carians claimed to be indigenous.
		Caria is, like Greece, a country of mountains and valleys, poor in agricultural and other resources - in comparison with Egypt and Babylonia a backward country.
	www.livius.org /cao-caz/caria/caria.html (1825 words)

	Ataman Hotel - Princess Ada of Caria
		Paleoanthropoligist Berna Alpagut’s examination of the skeleton showed that she had delivered more than one child, that she had lived on dairy and cooked foods, that her teeth were sound and complete, that she was 1.62m in height and around 40 years of age when she died.
		She had not been reigning long before her younger brother Pixadarus, who was not married to his sister and therefore not eligible to inherit the kingdom according to Carian laws of succession, usurped the throne with the help of the fortress of Alinda.
		It was decided to reconstruct Princess Ada as she had looked in life, and her skeleton was taken to Manchester University Medical School by British experts.
	www.atamanhotel.com /princess-ada.html (660 words)

	Ada Doorbells (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Ada, Ghana - Ada is a town in eastern Ghana, lying on the Atlantic Ocean coast east of Accra, on the estuary of the River Volta.
		Salih Ada - Salih Ada is a Turkish island in the Aegean Sea, located north of Bodrum.
		Ada of Caria - Ada of Caria (4th century BC) came to power as the ruler of the large and profitable provincial capital city of Halicarnassus in Caria, a satrapy of the Persian Empire at a time when Darius was actively seeking to conquer it.
	doormat.vvvvvv3.com /adadoorbells.html (179 words)

	Ada :: Languages : Gourt
		Ada of Caria, satrap of Caria, deposed by her brother Idrieus, restored by Alexander the Great
		Dirk's Pointers to Ada Related Information - In case you are wondering why people are interested to use Ada as a teaching language, even as the language of choice for a first programming course at universities.
		Kernel Ada for an HDL - This paper is a call to SIGAda members to make a determined thrust to broaden Ada usage in the commercial world.
	computers.gourt.com /Programming/Languages/Ada.html (961 words)

	Detail Page
		Caria (Karia) was a mountainous region in southwest Asia Minor, south of the Maeander River.
		Mausolus, son of the Persian satrap Hecatomnus, moved the capital of Caria from Mylasa to Halicarnassus.
		Under him, Caria was virtually a separate kingdom, and he extended its territory into Ionia and Lycia.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=HLAG0383 (172 words)

	pothos.org - All about Alexander the Great (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Ada of Caria Ada was a member of the Carian royal family.
		When Alexander arrived in Caria, Ada had fortified herself in a citadel and went over to his side; Alexander repaid her by making her ruler of Caria once more and she adopted him as her son (Arrian 1.23.7-8)
		Attalos met his defeat in Pisidia by Antigonos’ army, and was captured, imprisoned, and, because of deteriorating health during the incarceration, died (c.316BC).
	www.pothos.org /alexander.asp?ParaID=32 (1393 words)

	FOCUS on CARIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Then, he declared Halicarnassus (Bodrum, a resort town of Turkey) as the capital of Caria and transferred the palace from Mylasa (Milas) to the new capital.
		His sudden death led his wife Ada to claim the sovereignity but Hekatonos's 3rd son Pixodaros forced Ada to leave the city for exile.
		He declared himself as the king and invited the king of Persia to appoint an administrator to share the rule of the kingdom with himself.
	www.focusmm.com /civcty/caria_00.htm (379 words)

	Bodrum's Famous Sons and Daughters Bodrumlife Engish by Tony Marciniec
		When Bodrum still bore the name "Halicarnassus", the capital of Caria, the city and its peninsula produced a considerable number of prominent personalities whose names continue to be celebrated in history.
		Ruler of Caria; enlarged Halicarnassus, brought in population and surrounded the city with extensive walls.
		Queen of Caria; deposed by her brother, reinstated by Alexander the Great who became later adopted son.
	www.bodrumlife.com /famous_sons_daughters.htm (212 words)

	Ancient coinage of Caria
		In Caria, properly so called,—that is to say, in the inland districts,— there was no coinage whatever before Alexander’s conquest; and, on the coast, Cnidus and Chersonesus, Idyma, Termera, Astyra, and perhaps Caunus, appear to have been the only mints before the commencement of the fine series of coins of the Hecatomnid dynasty.
		Attuda, on the borderland of Caria and Phrygia, was situated on the northern slope of the Salbacus range.
		To this island, which lay off the coast of Caria, some ten miles west of Myndus and north of Cos, are usually attributed the very archaic silver staters of the Babylonian standard.
	www.snible.org /coins/hn/caria.html (9514 words)

	Carian Princess,The Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology- Bodrum Sualtı Arkeoloji Müzesi Turkey
		It is a tribute to the memory of Ada I, a ruler deposed by her own brother and reinstated by the conqueror whom she had adopted as her son.
		The rich and delicate gold jewellery and ornaments that grace her figure as she may have appeared greeting guests in her banqueting hall evoke a regal hostess about to entertain her equals some 2400 years ago.
		At the very least the tableau probably closely approximates how the deposed Ada appeared to Alexander of Macedon when he paid her a visit in Labranda, before his troops conquered Halicarnassus and reinstated her to rule over Caria.
	www.bodrum-museum.com /museum/depts/carian_princess.htm (319 words)

	AdA sessiz kalma AdA
		Ada, sister of Charlemagne, for whom the Ada Gospels at Trier were produced.
		Ada, satrap of Caria, deposed by her brother Idreus, restored by Alexander the Great; see Wiki Classical Dictionary
		The short title of Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, a novel by Vladimir Nabokov (1969).
	www.find-ask.com /Encyclopedia/AdA/AdA.html (361 words)

	Welcome
		According to the writers of antiquity, Caria extended from the Menderes river in the west to the Dalaman creek in the east.
		The city thinking that their soldiers were returning victorious, opened its gates without hesitatian and was easly captured.To celebrate this victory Artemisia had her own statue erected.To prevent the statue to be destroyed under any circumstances she had it surrounded with a wall and declared it forbidden ground.
		Lsymahos was killed at the better of Kurupedion and Caria than was ruled by the Ptolemies(281B.C.)and had to pay a tax of one ‘’Trireme ‘’a year to the Egyptian kingdom.
	www.geocities.com /bodrumhistory (1577 words)

	11th ada brigade information -- 11th ada brigade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Robert was husband of Flora Ada Barrett (formerly Vanson), of...
		Jimmy's sister, Ada, born in 1848, survived to the...
		the ADA would represent U. interference with the internal operation of a foreign-based business and that cruise ships should be governed by the law of their flagging nation.
	www.quodada.info /11thadabrigade (955 words)

	CARIA - Online Information article about CARIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The country known as Caria was shared between ?the Carians proper and the Caunians, who were a wilder See also:
		siege, and the principality of Caria conferred by Alexander on Ada, a princess of the native See also:
		Art in Phrygia, Lydia, Caria and Lycia (Eng.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /CAR_CAU/CARIA.html (1288 words)

	ADA WONG : Celebritto.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		A fanlisting is a place for all fans of a particular interest to come together, and build the biggest listing of people from all around the world who are fans of that subject.
		at Trier were produced; Ada of Caria, satrap of Caria, deposed by her brother Idrieus, restored by Alexander the Great; Michaela Dippel, electronica artist from Cologne who goes by "Ada" Ada Wong, a...
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	it6.celebritto.com /ada-wong.html (307 words)

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		But in Ada there is something regal and spiritual added to it, something of a goddess, and this - yes, this I could love and caress.
		I watched Queen Ada with a new fascination and dread, then, and eventually, the illusion of Athena passed from her and she became a queen again, lustrous in her finery, and picking delicately at the Sardis I placed before her.
		Part of the discussions with Ada were done with Apollion and Parmenion, and they urged me to accept her suit, to find if such would influence the outcome of the approach to Halicarnassos and the Carian people.
	www.zebratta.com /Books/Confess/2confess-43.htm (1458 words)

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