id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8254 Ada of Caria - Wikipedia .html text/html 1589 308 64 Ada of Caria Wikipedia Successor Alexander III (the Great) of Macedon 377 – 326 BC)[1] was a member of the House of Hecatomnus (the Hecatomnids) and ruler of Caria during the mid-4th century BC, first as Persian Satrap and later as Queen under the auspices of Alexander III (the Great) of Macedon.[2] Ada was the daughter of Hecatomnus, satrap of Caria, and sister of Mausolus, Artemisia, Idrieus, and Pixodarus. On the death of her husband Ada became satrap of Caria, but was expelled by her brother Pixodarus in 340 BC, who upon his death in 335 BC was succeeded by his own son-in-law, the Persian Orontobates. When Alexander the Great entered Caria in 334 BC, Ada adopted Alexander as her son and surrendered Alinda to him. Ada sarcophagus[edit] Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ada of Caria. Satraps under Alexander the Great Ada (Queen of Caria) Achaemenid satraps of Caria ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8254.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8254.txt