Plarasa orPlarassa was an inland town ofancient Caria, inhabited duringRoman times.[1] At some point it, along with Tauropolis, became part of the territory of theAntiochia ad Maeandrum, after which an aqueduct which was built by Marcus Ulpius Carminius Claudianus (husband ofCarminia Ammia) in the2nd century to supply the combined community.[2]
Plarasa is also noted to have resisted thePompeian–Parthian invasion of 40 BC. After the war ended in Asia Minor, the city along withMiletus andAphrodisias (which the latter was bounded with the Plarsa via a koinon) successfully dispatched envoys to the senate to get freedom in the winter of 39BC.[3]
Its site is located nearBingeç inAsiatic Turkey.[1][4]
I. Ancient Aqueducts.
37°37′26″N28°38′04″E / 37.623843°N 28.634407°E /37.623843; 28.634407
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