The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites
Richard Stillwell, William L. MacDonald, Marian Holland McAllister, Stillwell, Richard, MacDonald, William L., McAlister, Marian Holland, Ed.

BARGASA or Pargasa Turkey.

City 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.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

W. 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.

G. E. BEAN