Lycians
The Lycians were an ancient people inhabiting Lycia, a coastal region of southwestern Anatolia in what is now Turkey. They spoke Lycian, an extinct language of the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European family, and used a distinctive script derived from the Greek alphabet in inscriptions.
Geography and political organization: Lycia ran along the southern coast and centered on city-states such as
Language and writing: The Lycian language is known from inscriptions dating from the 5th century BCE onward.
History and culture: Lycia was part of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, retaining local autonomy within the satrapy
Legacy: Under late antiquity, Lycia came under Roman and later Byzantine rule, and the Lycian language gradually