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Definition of Lycia
1. Noun. An ancient region on the coast of southwest Asia Minor.
Group relationships: Anatolia, Asia Minor
Definition of Lycia
1. Proper noun. An ancient region and Roman province in the southwest of Asia Minor, between Caria and Pamphylia ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lycia
Literary usage of Lycia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1888)
"H. Kiepert mentions that the surveys made by the various members of the two
Austrian expeditions to Lycia and Pamphylia oblige him to give a more southerly ..."
2. Sculptured Tombs of Hellas by Percy Gardner (1896)
"More interesting, because more full of human meaning, are the sculptural adornments
of the early tombs of the district of Lycia in southern Asia Minor. ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Though the mountain ranges of Lycia may all be considered as in reality offshoots
of Mount Taurus, several of them in ancient times were distinguished by ..."
4. Primitive Civilizations: Or, Outlines of the History of Ownership in Archaic by Edith Jemima Simcox (1894)
"As in Lycia, the monuments of women are numerous ; husband and wife are ... Lycia.
The Lydian monuments bearing the signature of Syro-Cappadocian artists ..."
5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"In the autumn Forbes dredged on the south-west coast of Asia Minor, and made
antiquarian and natural history excursions into the uplands of Lycia. ..."
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