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Modern Description: Town in Caria, near the tip of the Loryma peninsula SW of Marmaris. Kasara was (at least after 408 B.C.) a Rhodian deme which included Loryma and much of the S end of the peninsula. Whether it also included the island of Syme is more doubtful. As a deme it was attached to the city of Kamiros, not Lindos.
The site occupies a low hill in a valley running across the peninsula. The remains consist merely of a stretch of circuit wall in bossed ashlar, and two specimens of the curious stepped pyramidal bases which appear to be found exclusively in the immediate neighborhood; their purpose remains uncertain. (G. E. BEAN) Bent saw a ruined Byzantine church and line of columns in the middle of the valley...
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasara_(Caria)
Wikidata ID: Q65066291
Trismegistos Geo: 57182
DARE: 28973

Info: Princeton Encyclopedia

(Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, from Perseus Project)

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