Choma (Lycia)

Choma (Ancient Greek: Χῶμα) was a place in the interior of ancient Lycia, according to Pliny on a river Aedesa.[1] Ptolemy places Choma as one of the four cities of the Milyas, and places it near Candyba.[2] The town can be identified with a site near today's village of Hacımusalar in the district of Elmalı.[3]

Several buildings of the ancient city have been excavated and are visible today.

  1. ^ Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 5.27.
  2. ^ Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 5.3.
  3. ^ George Ewart Bean, Choma (Hacimusalar) Lycia, Turkey, in: Richard Stillwell u. a. (Hrsg.), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976.