Milyas

Milyas (Ancient Greek: Μιλυάς) was a mountainous country in ancient south-west Anatolia (modern Turkey). According to Herodotus, the boundaries of Milyas were not fixed.[1] However, it is generally described as being mostly in the northern part of the successor kingdom of Lycia, as well as southern Pisidia, and part of eastern Phrygia.[2] According to Herodotus, the boundaries of Milyas were never fixed.[3]

For the genus of moths, see Azeta.

Its inhabitants used the endonym Milyae (Μιλύαι),[4] or Milyans. However, the oldest known name for inhabitants of the area is Sólymoi (Σόλυμοι), Solymi and Solymians – names that are probably derived from the nearby Mount Solymus. There is some evidence that the Solymoi originally spoke an unattested Semitic language,[5] whereas the Milyan language was an Indo-European language.

References

1. Herod. i. 173; Arrian, Anab. i. 25.
2. Strab. xii. p. 573.
3. Herod. i. 173; Arrian, Anab. i. 25.
4. Herod. vii. 77 ; Strab. xiv. p. 667; Plin. v. 25, 42.
5. Louis H. Feldman, 1996, Jew and Gentile in the Ancient World: Attitudes and Interactions from Alexander to Justinian. Princeton, Princeton University Press, pp. 190–1; 519–21.
6. Polyb. v. 72; Strab. xii. p. 570, xiii. p. 631, xiv. p. 666.
7. Ptol. v. 3. § 7, 5. § 6.
8. Plin. v. 42; see also Ptol. v. 2. § 12.
9. Polyb. Exc. de Leg. 36
10. Strab. xii. p. 570.
11. Polyb. v. 72; Ptol. v. 2. § 12; Steph. B. s. v. Μιλύαι

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Milyas" . Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.