Hygassos was a town of the

Rhodian Peraea The Rhodian Peraea or Peraia () was the name for the southern coast of the region of Caria in western Asia Minor during the 5th–1st centuries BC, when the area was controlled and colonized by the nearby island of Rhodes. Already in Classical ti ...

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 ...

, that was inhabited in the

Hellenistic period In classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Greek history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the death of Cleopatra VII in 30 BC, which was followed by the ascendancy of the R ...

. The name does not appear in inscriptions, but the

demonym A demonym (; ) or 'gentilic' () is a word that identifies a group of people ( inhabitants, residents, natives) in relation to a particular place. Demonyms are usually derived from the name of the place ( hamlet, village, town, city, region, ...

() occurs frequently in ancient epigraphy. Its site is located on Losta Bay,

Bozburun Peninsula Bozburun Peninsula () is a peninsula in southwest Turkey. In antiquity the cape at its extremity was called ''Aphrodisias'' (). It is between the Aegean and Mediterranean seas. Datça Peninsula is to the north and the Greek Greek may refer to: ...

, Asiatic Turkey.

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