Uranium (Caria) Explained

Uranium or Ouranion (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: 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. Two Hellenistic inscriptions published in 1992, however, seem to place the city on Dikmendag, a coastal mountain about 7 km west of Ören.^[4]

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Notes and References

1. The Halicarnassus Peninsula. G. E. Bean . J. M. Cook . The Annual of the British School at Athens . 50. 1955. 85–171. 10.1017/s0068245400018591. 130571431.
2. Book: Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen . An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. 2004. Oxford University Press. New York. 0-19-814099-1. Karia. 1131–1132.
3. Anatolian Studies . The Carian Tribute. 1981. Thompson, Wesley E.. 31 . 95–100 . British Institute at Ankara. 10.2307/3642760 . 3642760 . 163219608 .
4. Ouranion en Carie. Varinlioğlu Ender . Bresson Alain . Brun Patrice . Debord Pierre . Descat Raymond . Revue des Études Anciennes . 94. 1992. 155–174. 10.3406/rea.1992.4489.