A gneiss and granite mountain range in Caria on the northern and eastern banks of former Latmikos Kolpos (modern Bafa Gölü), modern Beşparmak Dağları. First mentioned by Hecat. FGrH 1 F 239. Archaeologically the earliest traces of human settlement go back to prehistory. The L. was one of the sacred mountains of Asia Minor. On the Tekerlekdağ (1,375 m high), the Carian-Anatolian weather and ra…
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Peschlow-Bindokat, Anneliese (Berlin),
“Latmus”, in:
Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry.
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