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Caria ( ''Karkija'' (a member state of the Assuwa league, ca. 1250 BC), Babylonian ''Karsa'', Elamite and Old Persian ''Kurka''. According to some accounts, the land was originally called " Phoenicia ", because a Phoenician colony settled there in early times. Afterwards it is said to have received the name of ''Caria'' from ''' Car ''', a legendary early king of the Carians. Independent Caria arose as a " Neo-Hittite " kingdom around the 11th century BC, and was incorporated into the Persian Achaemenid empire as the satrapy of Karka in 545 BC . The most important town was Halicarnassus , where its sovereigns reigned. Other major towns were Heraclea , Antiochia , Myndus , Laodicea , Alinda and Alabanda . Homer 's '' Iliad '' records that at the time of the Trojan War , the city of Miletus belonged to the Carians, and was allied to the Trojan cause. Halicarnassus was the location of the famed Mausoleum Of Maussollos , one of the Seven Wonders Of The World and from which the Romans named any grand tomb a ''mausoleum.'' Caria was conquered by Alexander The Great in 334 BC . Lemprière notes that "As Caria probably abounded in Fig s, a particular sort has been called Carica, and the words ''In Care periculum facere'', having been proverbially used to signify the encountering of danger in the pursuit of a thing of trifling value." See also
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