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City on the western shore of the island of Rhodes (area 6).
Camirus was one of six cities of Dorian origin in Caria that had gathered in a confederacy having its common sanctuary, a temple to Apollo, on the promontory on which Cnidus was located, named the Triopion. Together they formed what used to be called the Hexapolis (in Greek, "the six cities") until Halicarnassus was excluded and they became the Pentapolis (in Greek, "the five cities" : see Herodotus' Histories, I, 144).

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