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  • noun Plural form of Carian.

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Examples

  • What Herodotus does not indicate is where the rest of the Persian ships were: that is, the Carians, Cypriots, Cilicians, Pamphylians, and Lycians; the Egyptians possibly were on Psyttaleia.

    The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004

  • What Herodotus does not indicate is where the rest of the Persian ships were: that is, the Carians, Cypriots, Cilicians, Pamphylians, and Lycians; the Egyptians possibly were on Psyttaleia.

    The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004

  • Then those of them who escaped were shut up in Labraunda849 within the sanctuary of Zeus Stratios, which is a large sacred grove of plane-trees; now the Carians are the only men we know who offer sacrifices to Zeus Stratios.

    The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

  • Because of this last invention, the Persians called the Carians "cocks".

    Egyptology News Andie 2010

  • The Carians chafed under the rule of a foreign overlord and longed to see Ada on the throne once again.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • To the proud Carians, a father was ted and a mother en, not patēr and mētēr as among the Greeks.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • Alexander recruited the seafaring Phoenicians, Cypriots, Carians, and Egyptians in the army to serve as sailors and appointed his boyhood friend Nearchus as admiral.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • But in spite of royal initiatives to promote Hellenic culture, the Carians remained loyal to their kings and queens even while they ignored their attempts to spread Greek ways.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • In addition, she would formally adopt Alexander as her own son, thus giving him legitimacy as overlord in the eyes of the Carians.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • Greeks and Carians lived amicably side by side, but the rulers were a native dynasty known as the Hecatomnids.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

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