Lycia is a mountainous region in south-west Anatolia (also known as Asia Minor, modern-day Turkey). The earliest references to Lycia can be traced through Hittite texts to sometime before 1200 BCE, where it is known as the Lukka Lands. The city is mentioned in both Hittite and Egyptian texts, where they the Lycians are associated with a group known as the Sea Peoples. Lycia is also recorded as having contact with both the Greek and Roman civilizations, granting the region a recorded inhabited lifespan of over 2,000 years.
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1330 BCE - 1300 BCESinking of the Uluburun shipwreck off the coast of Lycia.
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1300 BCE - 1150 BCEEgyptian sources name Lycia as the Lukka Lands and as part of a confederacy of 'Sea Peoples'.
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700 BCE - 379 CEThe Letoon sanctuary dedicated to Leto is active at Xanthos in Lycia.
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546 BCEPersia controls Lycia.
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c. 350 BCEthe Tomb of Amyntas at Telmesso in Lycia is built.
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197 BCEAntiochus III conquers Lycia.
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189 BCERome gives control of Lycia to Rhodes.
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167 BCEThe Roman Senate separates Lycia from Caria.
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43 CELycia is joined with neighbouring Pamphylia under a single Roman governor.
