Carae
Κάραι κώμαι
Carae (Κάραι κώμαι. Diod. 17.27), a small place mentioned by Diodorus, and probably in Sittacene, one of the SE. districts of Assyria. It has been conjectured by Mannert (5.2. p. 342) that it was situated in the neighbourhood of Kesri-Shírín, on the river Holwan.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.