Ada of Caria (4th century BC) came to power as the ruler of the large and profitable provincial capital city of Halicarnassus in Caria, a satrapy of the Persian Empire at a time when Darius was actively seeking to conquer it. Ada's armies put up little resistance and were quickly dispatched, leaving the port city under Persian occupation. (5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - other centuries) (2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium AD) Events Invasion of the Celts into Ireland Gauls sack Rome Kingdom of Macedon conquers Persian empire The Scythians are beginning to be absorbed into the Sarmatian people. ... Map of the Aegean Sea, showing the location of Halicarnassus (modern Bodrum, Turkey) Halicarnassus (modern Bodrum), an ancient Greek city on the southwest coast of Caria, Asia Minor, on a picturesque and advantageous site on the Ceramic Gulf or Gulf of Cos. ... For other uses, see Caria (disambiguation). ... Satrap (Greek σατράπης satrápēs, from Old Persian xšaθrapā(van), i. ... The Persian Empire is the name used to refer to a number of historic dynasties that have ruled the country of Iran. ... The name of three kings of ancient Persia: Darius the Great or Darius I of Persia. ...
Upon Alexander the Great's conquest of Asia Minor, and his arrival at the border of Caria in 334 BC, Ada offered to adopt and pronounce Alexander as her rightful heir if he would take back the city and reinstate her. This the conqueror did after a difficult siege. Ada was then reinstated as queen and grew close to Alexander. In his time with her, he would eventually refer to her as "mother", however Ada can be juxtaposed with Alexander's actual mother, Olympias, in that she was purportedly even-tempered and relatively emotionally stable. Bust of Alexander III in the British Museum. ... Anatolia (Greek: ανατολη anatole, rising of the sun or East; compare Orient and Levant, by popular etymology Turkish Anadolu to ana mother and dolu filled), also called by the Latin name of Asia Minor, is a region of Southwest Asia which corresponds today to the Asian portion of Turkey. ... For other uses, see Caria (disambiguation). ... Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC Decades: 380s BC 370s BC 360s BC 350s BC 340s BC - 330s BC - 320s BC 310s BC 300s BC 290s BC 280s BC 339 BC 338 BC 337 BC 336 BC 335 BC - 334 BC - 333 BC 332 BC 331... Olympias (Greek: Ολυμπιάς) (d. ...
When Alexander finally abandoned the city to continue his conquests, he granted the queen a garrison to clean up what was left of the defeated Persian army.
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Wiki Classical Dictionary: Ada (http://www.ancientlibrary.com/wcd/Ada)
CARIA, an ancient district of Asia Minor, bounded on the N. by Ionia and Lydia, on the W. and S. by the Aegean Sea, and on the E. by Lycia and a small part of Phrygia.
The country known as Caria was shared between the Carians proper and the Caunians, who were a wilder people, inhabiting the district between Caria and Lycia.
But his capital, Halicarnassus, was taken after a siege, and the principality of Caria conferred by Alexander on Ada, a princess of the native dynasty.
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