Olymos ( grc, Ὄλυμος) or Olymon (Ὄλυμον) or Hylimos (Ὕλιμος) 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 t ...

. It 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. Its site is located near Kafaca, Asiatic Turkey. Many inscriptions of the

Hellenistic period In Classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Mediterranean history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the emergence of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in ...

have been recovered from the site.

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Populated places in ancient Caria Former populated places in Turkey Greek city-states Members of the Delian League Ancient Greek archaeological sites in Turkey Milas District History of Muğla Province {{AncientCaria-geo-stub