Crya or Krya ( gr, ; also Carya) was a city of ancient Lycia and was a ''

polis ''Polis'' (, ; grc-gre, πόλις, ), plural ''poleis'' (, , ), literally means "city" in Greek. In Ancient Greece, it originally referred to an administrative and religious city center, as distinct from the rest of the city. Later, it also ...

'' (city-state) and a member of the

Delian League The Delian League, founded in 478 BC, was an association of Greek city-states, numbering between 150 and 330, under the leadership of Athens, whose purpose was to continue fighting the Persian Empire after the Greek victory in the Battle of Pl ...

. Its exact location is not known, but it is located near Taşyaka, Asiatic Turkey.

Stephanus of Byzantium Stephanus or Stephan of Byzantium ( la, Stephanus Byzantinus; grc-gre, Στέφανος Βυζάντιος, ''Stéphanos Byzántios''; centuryAD), was a Byzantine grammarian and the author of an important geographical dictionary entitled ''Ethni ...

quotes the first book of the Epitome of

Artemidorus Artemidorus Daldianus ( grc-gre, Ἀρτεμίδωρος ὁ Δαλδιανός) or Ephesius was a professional diviner who lived in the 2nd century AD. He is known from an extant five-volume Greek work, the '' Oneirocritica'' or ''Oneirokritikon ...

: "...and there are also other islands of the Cryeis, Carysis and Alina". Pliny who may have had the same or similar reference, calls it ''Cryeon tres'', by which he means that there were three islands off or near to Crya; but he does not name them. Pliny places Crya in

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 Ionians, Ionian and Dorians, Dorian Greeks colonized the west of i ...

, and he mentions it after

Daedala In Ancient Greece, the Daedala (Greek: ''δαίδαλα'') was a festival of reconciliation that was held every few years in honor of Hera, consort of the supreme god Zeus at Plataea, in Boeotia, being one of the major cults of the city. Accordin ...

, under the name of ''Crya fugitivorum''. According to his description it is on the gulf of Glaucus. The '' Stadiasmus Maris Magni'' places it, under the name , 160 stadia from

Telmissus Telmessos or Telmessus ( Hittite: 𒆪𒉿𒆷𒉺𒀸𒊭 ''Kuwalapašša'', Lycian: 𐊗𐊁𐊍𐊁𐊂𐊁𐊛𐊆 ''Telebehi'', grc, Τελμησσός), also Telmissus ( grc, Τελμισσός), later Anastasiopolis ( grc, Αναστ� ...

to the west. Pomponius Mela speaks merely of a promontorium Crya. In

Ptolemy Claudius Ptolemy (; grc-gre, Πτολεμαῖος, ; la, Claudius Ptolemaeus; AD) was a mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist, who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were of importanc ...

the name is written "Carya", and it is assigned to Lycia.

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Former populated places in Turkey Populated places in ancient Caria Populated places in ancient Lycia Greek city-states Members of the Delian League {{AncientCaria-geo-stub