. "Caria (/\u02C8k\u025B\u0259ri\u0259/; from Luwian: Karuwa, \"steep country\"; Ancient Greek: \u039A\u03B1\u03C1\u03AF\u03B1, Karia, Turkish: Karya) was a region of western Anatolia extending along the coast from mid-Ionia (Mycale) south to Lycia and east to Phrygia. The Ionian and Dorian Greeks colonized the west of it and joined the Carian population in forming Greek-dominated states there. The eponymous inhabitants of Caria were known as Carians, and they had arrived in Caria before the Greeks."@en . .