Chrysaoris () was a town of

ancient Caria Caria (; from Greek: Καρία, ''Karia''; ) was a region of western Anatolia extending along the coast from mid- Ionia ( Mycale) south to Lycia and east to Phrygia. The Carians were described by Herodotus as being Anatolian mainlanders ...

, perhaps afterwards called Idrias (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 kn ...

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

Herodotus Herodotus (; BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus (now Bodrum, Turkey), under Persian control in the 5th century BC, and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy. He wrote the '' Histori ...

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