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2 Geography
3 History
4 Lycian league
5 Sources on Lycians
5.Inhabitants
The region of Lycia has been inhabited by human groups since prehistoric times.European language, belonging to its Anatolian branch.The closest language to the Lycian language is the Luwian language, which was spoken in Anatolia during the 2nd and early 1st millennium BC; it may even be its direct ancestor.Turkish War in the early 20th century.Lycia is a mountainous and densely forested region along the coast of southwestern Turkey on and around the Teke Peninsula.Lycian Way, follows part of the coast of the region.The principal cities of ancient Lycia were Xanthos, Patara, Myra, Pinara, Tlos and Olympos (each entitled to three votes in the Lycian League) and Phaselis.History
Ancient Egyptian records describe the Lycians as allies of the Hittites.Lycia may have been a member state of the Assuwa league of ca.BC, appearing as Lukka or Luqqa.According to Herodotus, Lycia was named after Lycus, the son of Pandion II of Athens.Lycia was frequently mentioned by Homer as an ally of Troy.In Homer's Iliad, the Lycian contingent was said to have been led by two esteemed warriors: Sarpedon (son of Zeus and Laodamia) and Glaucus (son of Hippolochus).Elsewhere in Greek mythology, the Lycian kingdom was said to have been ruled by another Sarpedon, a Cretan exile and brother of the king Minos; Sarpedon's followers were called Termilae, and they founded a dynasty after their conquest of a people called the Milyans.Lycia appears elsewhere in Greek myth, such as in the story of Bellerophon, who eventually succeeded to the throne of the Lycian king Iobates (or Amphianax).Lycia came under the control of the Persian Empire in 546 BC when Harpagus of Media, a general in the service of Cyrus conquered Asia Minor.Harpagus's descendants ruled Lycia until 468 BC when Athens wrested control away.Persia then retook Lycia in 387 BC and held it until it was conquered by Alexander III of Macedon.It subsequently passed into the hands of the Seleucids before falling to the Roman Republic in 189 BC.The heir of Augustus, Gaius Caesar, was killed there in 4 AD.In 43, the emperor Claudius annexed it to the Roman Empire and united it with Pamphylia as a Roman province.It subsequently became part of the (Greek) Byzantine Empire before being overrun by the (Turkish) Ottoman Empire and eventually becoming part of Turkey.Trimili which was recently discovered on an ancient road sign in Patara excavation.Interestingly, today a Turkish village named "Dirmil" stands on the lands of ancient Trimili which may prove that this is the evolved name of the land therefore the ancient Lycians.The British Museum in London has one of the best collections of Lycian artifacts.Lycia was an important center of worship for the goddess Leto and later, her twin children, Apollo and Artemis.Lycian league
The Lycian League was established in 168 BC with democratic principles.Lycia, which had been under Rhodian control since the Peace of Apamea in 188 B.The major cities of the League included Xanthos, Patara, Pinara, Olympus, Myra, and Tlos, with Patara as the capital.Phaselis joined the League at a later time.The league continued to function after Lycia became a Roman province in 46 AD.Lycia ceased being a federation in the fourth century A.Chicago: University of Chicago Press."The Sea Peoples", in J.Adcock: The Cambridge Ancient History.Also tells about the Philistines during the reign of Ramesses III.Discusses Lukka's relations to other regions (like Miletus) and where they inhabited.Covers the Lycians and where they lived, their history, language, culture, cults, and their language.Egyptian evidence on the Sea Peoples.External links
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Gocek Informations Centre (www.Etching of a Lycian tomb from A.Hamlin's A History of Ornament (New York: The Century Company, 1916)
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Yaliboyu Mah.Who Were the Lycians?Turkey between the Gulf of Fethiye and Phaselis.So far, no one has been able to solve the question.An axe has also been found at Tlos, dated around 2000 BC.Troy in the Trojan Wars.Trojan War from a Trojan rather than a Greek perspective.What Did the Lycians Look Like?Asia Minor, who wore Greek armor.During the Ottoman
period it was called 'Uc', the 'Frontier', a name that conjures up the
nature of the landscape.It is a region hemmed in by mountains.On the
west and east two high mountain ridges, the tallest peaks standing well
over 3000 meters (10,000 feet) high, cut off Lycia from neighboring Caria
to the west and Pamphylia to the east.In the north a lower but no less rugged range and a great plateau cut Lycia
off from central Anatolia.Around the coast
a series of mountain ranges drop precipitously into the
sea and though
the peaks are not as high as those in the interior, the aspect from seaward
is of an inhospitable coast.Right into early summer the highest peaks
in Lycia, Akdag in the west and Bey Dagi (ancient Mt Solymnus) in the east,
are covered in snow on the highest slopes.As the landscape is wild, so were the men who lived here.The Lycians
enjoyed a reputation for independence and fought for it tooth and nail,
often to the last man.In 546 BC the
Persians defeated Croesus, the last Lydian
king, and advanced upon Lycia.On the Plain of Xanthos the Lycians met
the much superior forces of the Persians, to no avail.Then having sworn to do or die,
they marched out to meet the enemy and were killed to a man."Five hundred years later in 42 BC it all happened again when Brutus
besieged Xanthos.Against a superior force
the Lycians fought to the finish, and when they saw there was no hope of
victory, they once again slew their women and children
and burnt the city down.Thus the Xanthians, after a long
space of years, repeated by their desperate deed the calamity of their
forefathers, who after the very same manner in the Persian Wars had fired
their city and destroyed themselves."Such was the feeling of the Lycians towards independence that they were
the last region to be incorporated into the Roman provinces in Asia
Minor.Who were these Lycians and where did they come from?They are mentioned
in Homer's Iliad where they fought on the
side of the Trojans in defense of Troy, a gallant
force from "distant Lycia and the eddying Xanthos".Herodotus fills us in on the details.The Lycians,
he says, came from Crete after "Sarpedon and Minos, fought for the throne,
and the victorious Minos expelled Sarpedon and his party".They were then
called the Termilae, and only adopted the name Lycian when the noble Lycus,
son of King Pandion was expelled from Athens and came to join Sarpedon.From Lycus they adopted the name Lycian.It's all a bit tortuous and not
as interesting as the light Hittite and Egyptian
references throw on the origins of the Lycians.They had goatskin slung round their
shoulders, and hats stuck round with feathers.Piracy is again mentioned in the 5th century BC, but it is not until
the Roman occupation of Asia Minor that attempts
were again made to bring it under control.However Pompey was reluctant to give up his power and his ships
and became himself something of a thorn in the Senate's side.After the
fall of Rome the Lycian coast once again became a haven for pirate fleets
and not until the 18th and 19th centuries and the presence of the British
Navy was the piracy problem again tackled and the Lycian coast cleaned
up.In this remote region the sites of over forty cities have been found
and much remains to identify the culture of the Lycians.The most obvious
features of the Lycian landscape are the tombs and sarcophagi left behind.They are everywhere and it is difficult not to think of the region as a
vast necropolis peopled with the shadowy figures of Lycian nobles and warriors.Lycians and the tombs are
extravagant affairs, the more grandiose decorated with a frieze and inscriptions
placing a curse upon anyone tampering with the tomb.Lycia and consist of a long tapering pillar set on a stone base with
the grave chamber at the top.Lycian tombs and consist of a temple
facade with a grave chamber behind it.Those at Caunos
are the most romantically sited while those at Fethiye
the most accessible.Lycians and so give us some idea of what everyday accommodation was
like several thousand years ago.The older sarcophagi
are the largest with massive stone bases, grave chambers, and heavy lids
often with a peaked 'gothic' look to them.With the decline of the Roman Empire, so too Lycian fortunes declined.In Byzantine times there were small settlements
around the coast, a number of Byzantine churches
will be seen in isolated spots, but the interior was not heavily populated
as in Lycian times.Not until those intrepid travelers of the
19th century, Francis Beaufort, Charles Newton, Thomas Spratt and Edward
Forbes, was the existence and extent of Lycian culture to be brought to
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