Bargasa
BA´RGASA (Βάργασα: Eth. Βαργασηνός), a city of Caria. The Ethnic name is given by Stephanus on the authority of Apollonius in his Carica. There are also coins of Bargasa with the epigraph Βαργασηνῶν. It is mentioned by Strabo (p. 656), who, after speaking of Cnidus, says, then Ceramus and Bargasa, small places above the sea.T he next place that he mentions is Halicarnassus. Bargasa is therefore between Cnidus and Halicarnassus. Leake places Bargasa in his map, by conjecture, at the head of the gulf of Cos, at a place which he marks Djovata; this seems to be the Giva of Cramer. Neither of them states the authority for this position.
[G.L]Site in Caria, perhaps at Haydere, 11 km SE of Bozdoğan, in the valley of the Harpasos. The region at least is certain, both from Ptolemy (5.2.15) and from coins and inscriptions found in the neighborhood. The ruins of a town or city with a gymnasium have been found at Haydere.
BIBLIOGRAPHYW. R. Paton, JHS 20 (1900) 60-61; L. Robert, La Carie II (1954) 273, 336, n.1.
G. E. BEANCity in Caria, almost certainly at Gökbel near the coast, 29 km E of Bodrum. The city figures (as Pargasa) in the Delian Confederacy, usually paying 500 dr., and can have been only very small. From Strabo (656) it appears that it should be W of Keramos and close to the sea; at Gökbel, which is 18 km W of Keramos, there is a small citadel on a rocky hilltop, with a wall of rough masonry and sherds of archaic and Hellenistic date. A fragmentary Hellenistic city-decree was found here, proving the existence of a polis, and on the shore nearby another fragment referring to sacred harbors.
BIBLIOGRAPHYW. R. Paton & J. Myres, JHS 16 (1896) 197; R. Kiepert, Forma orbis antiqui (1908-14) VII, Text p. 7; A. Maiuri, Annuario 4-5 (1921-22) 448-49; G. E. Bean & J. M. Cook, BSA 50 (1955) 135, 165.
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