Uranium or Ouranion (Ancient Greek: Οὐράνιον) was a town of ancient Caria, on the Bodrum Peninsula. Uranium was a polis (city-state) and a member of the Delian League. Uranium appears in the Athenian tribute lists and paid an annual tribute of 17 drachmae, 1 obol.
Its site was associated with Burgaz, on a hill NW of Geriş village, Bodrum, Asiatic Turkey. Two Hellenistic inscriptions published in 1992, however, seem to place the city on Dikmendag, a coastal mountain about 7 km west of Ören.
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- Thompson, Wesley E. (1981). "The Carian Tribute". Anatolian Studies. 31. British Institute at Ankara: 95–100. doi:10.2307/3642760. JSTOR 3642760. S2CID 163219608.
- Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 61, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
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- Varinlioğlu Ender; Bresson, Alain; Brun Patrice; Debord Pierre; Descat Raymond (1992). "Ouranion en Carie". Revue des Études Anciennes. 94: 155–174. doi:10.3406/rea.1992.4489.
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