Pedasa

Town of ancient Caria

Pedasa (Ancient Greek: Πήδασα or τὰ Πήδασα), also known as Pedasus or Pedasos (Πήδασος),^[1] and as Pedasum,^[2] was a town of ancient Caria. It was a polis (city-state) by c. 400 BCE.^[3] Alexander the Great deprived the place of its independence by giving it over to the Halicarnassians, together with five other neighbouring towns.^[2]

It was a member of the Delian League.^[4]

Its site is near the modern Gökçeler.^[5]^[6]

People

Hermotimus of Pedasa, favourite eunuch of Xerxes the Great

References

^ Suda, pi.1497
^ ^a ^b Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 5.29.
^ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 1305, 1334. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
^ Athenian Tribute Lists
^ 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.
^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Pedasa". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.