Pedasa
Ancient city · Turkey
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 37.055, 27.413
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient city of Caria in modern-day Turkey
History
Pedasa, also known as Pedasus or Pedasos (Πήδασος), and as Pedasum, was a town of ancient Caria. It was a polis (city-state) by c. 400 BCE. Alexander the Great deprived the place of its independence by giving it over to the Halicarnassians, together with five other neighbouring towns.