Perhaps formed to protest the annexation of Lycia by Rhodes, by 168–7 BCE the league appears to have gained quasi-autonomy under the domination of Rome. Although the league was a party to a treaty with Iulius Caesar in 46 BCE, by 43 CE the region was annexed by Claudius into the province of Lycia; the league survived and had authority over some local customs and legal matters.
Ryan Horne,
and Jeffrey Becker,
'Lycian League: a Pleiades place resource',
Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places,2019
<https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/68843864> [accessed: 20 September 2024]
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