Phoenix (Caria)

Phoenix or Phoinix (Ancient Greek: Φοῖνιξ) was a town of ancient Caria, near the mountain of the same name on the southern branch of the Bozburun Peninsula.^[1] It may be the same as the town called Phoenice or Phoinike (Φοινίκη) by Stephanus of Byzantium.^[2]^[3]

It belonged to the Rhodian Peraea.^[4]

Its site is located near Fenaket in Asiatic Turkey.^[1]^[5] Archaeology has uncovered numerous inscriptions.^[3]

References edit

^ ^a ^b Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 61, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v. Φοινίκη.
^ ^a ^b Stillwell, Richard; MacDonald, William L.; McAllister, Marian Holland, eds. (1976). "Phoinix". The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press.
^ The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, PHOINIX (Fenaket) Turkey
^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

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