Chrysaoris ( grc, Χρυσαορίς) was a town of

ancient Caria Caria (; from Greek: Καρία, ''Karia''; tr, Karya) was a region of western Anatolia extending along the coast from mid-Ionia (Mycale) south to Lycia and east to Phrygia. The Ionian and Dorian Greeks colonized the west of it and joined the ...

, perhaps afterwards called

Idrias Idrias ( grc, Ἰδριάς) was a town of ancient Caria. It has been suggested that Idrias could be identified with the city that the Hittite texts of the Bronze Age call Atriya. Herodotus cites the territory of Idrias, which he names Idriade wh ...

(Ἰδριάς).Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica, Ch696.9
/ref> According to Apollonius, in his ''Carica'', it was the first city which was founded by the

Lycians Lycians is the name of various peoples who lived, at different times, in Lycia, a geopolitical area in Anatolia (also known as Asia Minor). History The earliest known inhabitants of the area were the ''Solymoi'' (or ''Solymi''), also know ...

. According to Marcus Mettius Epaphroditus, all Caria was called Chrysaoris.

Herodotus Herodotus ( ; grc, , }; BC) was an ancient Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, part of the Persian Empire (now Bodrum, Turkey) and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria ( Italy). He is known f ...

mentions a district in Caria, named Idrias, in which the river Marsyas (Çine Çay) had its source. Later, Antiochus built the city of Stratonicea there. Its site is tentatively located near Şahinler, Asiatic Turkey.

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Populated places in ancient Caria Former populated places in Turkey {{AncientCaria-geo-stub