Caria in 218 B.C.

Caria — Ptolemaic Egypt › The Overseas Empire.

The south-western corner of Asia Minor, with the great harbour-city of Halikarnassos and a chain of coastal strongholds. A Ptolemaic foothold among the cities and dynasts of Caria, it projects royal influence onto the Anatolian shore and guards the approaches to the Aegean, facing the Seleucid interior and the ambitions of Rhodes and Macedon.