Cariatae
Καρίαται
Cariatae (Καρίαται, Strab. xi. p.517), a small town of Bactriana which was destroyed by Alexander the Great. It is said by Strabo to have been the place where Callisthenes was secured by Alexander's guards. (Arrian, Arr. Anab. 4.14; Cart. 8.5.8; Plut. Alex. 55.)
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.