id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-924 Kherei - Wikipedia .html text/html 844 195 71 Kherei (circa 433-410 BC,[2] or circa 410-390 BC) was dynast of Lycia, ruler of the area of Xanthos, at a time when this part of Anatolia was subject to the Persian, or Achaemenid, Empire.[2] Present-day knowledge of Lycia in the period of classical antiquity comes mostly from archaeology, in which this region is unusually rich.[3] He may have been the dynast to whom was dedicated the Xanthian Obelisk, where he is mentioned in multiple places, although this could more probably be his predecessor Kheriga (Xeriga, Gergis in Greek).[4] Kherei may have been Kheriga's brother, and succeeded him. After 360 BC, the region of Lycia was taken over by the Carian dynast Mausolus.[5] The portrait on the coins of Kherei show the dynast wearing the Achaemenid satrapal headdress.[6] Dynastic Lycia: A Political of History of the Lycians and Their Relations with Foreign Powers : C. Artaxerxes III Ochus Dynasts of Lycia ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-924.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-924.txt