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![]() Portrait of a young woman from the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, sometimes identified as Ada. British Museum. | |
Satrap of Caria (first reign) | |
Reign | 344–340 BC |
Predecessor | Idrieus |
Successor | Pixodarus |
Queen of Caria (second reign) | |
Reign | 334-326 BC |
Predecessor | Orontobates |
Successor | Alexander III (the Great) of Macedon |
Born | 4th century BC Mobolla, Persian Empire (modern-day Muğla, Turkey) |
Died | 326 BC Halicarnassus, Caria (modern-day Bodrum, Muğla, Turkey) |
Consort | Idrieus |
House | Hecatomnids |
Father | Hecatomnus |
Hecatomnid dynasty (Dynasts of Caria) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Ada of Caria (Ancient Greek: Ἄδα) (fl. 377 – 326 BC)[1] was a member of the House of Hecatomnus (the Hecatomnids) and ruler of Caria during the mid-4th century BC, first as Persian Satrap and later as Queen under the auspices of Alexander III (the Great) of Macedon.[2]
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