Uranium (Caria)

Uranium or Ouranion (Ancient Greek: Οὐράνιον) was a town of ancient Caria, on the Bodrum Peninsula.[1] Uranium was a polis (city-state) and a member of the Delian League.[2] Uranium appears in the Athenian tribute lists and paid an annual tribute of 17 drachmae, 1 obol.[3]

Its site was associated with Burgaz, on a hill NW of Geriş village, Bodrum, Asiatic Turkey.[4][5]. Two Hellenistic inscriptions published in 1992, however, seem to place the city on Dikmendag, a coastal mountain about 7 km west of Ören.[6].

References

1. G. E. Bean, J. M. Cook (1955). "The Halicarnassus Peninsula". The Annual of the British School at Athens. 50: 85–171. doi:10.1017/s0068245400018591.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
2. Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Karia". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 1131–1132. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
3. Thompson, Wesley E. (1981). "The Carian Tribute". Anatolian Studies. British Institute at Ankara: 95.
4. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 61, and directory notes accompanying.
5. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
6. Varinlioğlu Ender, Bresson Alain, Brun Patrice, Debord Pierre, Descat Raymond (1992). "Ouranion en Carie". Revue des Études Anciennes. 94: 155–174.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)