Cāria

, now Aidinelli , a country of Asia Minor, whose boundaries have been different in different ages. Generally speaking, it was at the south of Iona, at the east and north of the Icarian sea, and at the west of Phrygia Major, and Lycia. It has been called Phœnicia, because a Phœnician colony first settled there; and afterwards it received the name of Caria, from Car, a king who first invented the auguries of birds. The chief town was called Halicarna us, where Jupiter was the chief deity. See: Cares .――A poet of Thrace. Mela , bk. 2 , ch. 2 .