Phoenix (Caria)

{{short description|Town of ancient Caria}}

Phoenix or Phoinix ({{langx|grc|Φοῖνιξ}}) was a town of ancient Caria, near the mountain of the same name on the southern branch of the Bozburun Peninsula. It may be the same as the town called Phoenice or Phoinike (Φοινίκη) by Stephanus of Byzantium.{{Cite Stephanus|s.v. Φοινίκη}}{{Cite PECS|Phoinix}}

It belonged to the Rhodian Peraea.[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0006%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DP%3Aentry+group%3D4%3Aentry%3Dphoinix-2 The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, PHOINIX (Fenaket) Turkey]

Its site is located near Fenaket in Asiatic Turkey.{{Cite Barrington|61}}{{Cite DARE|46718}} Archaeology has uncovered numerous inscriptions.