[9] The archaic form of Hyllarima might be Wallarima, which is attested in Hittite texts of the 2nd millennium BCE as the name of a community in this region, alongside nearby Iyalanda (Alinda).

[10] It is thought that the otherwise-unknown toponym Kaprima (Ancient Greek: Κάπριμα), the site of Eupolemus' defeat by Ptolemaeus according to Diodorus Siculus, is a corruption of Hyllarima.

The earliest known inscription from the vicinity shows that it recognised the conquest of Alexander the Great; it gives its date of creation "(in) the kingship of Philip".

[8] Because Philip III Arrhidaeus was only king in name, Hyllarima was probably under the control of Asander, satrap of Caria since the Partition of Babylon, at this time (c. 323 – c. 313 BCE).

[16] A proxeny inscription from the time of Pleistarchus shows that Hyllarima had adopted the institutions of a Greek polis by the 3rd century, whose chief magistrate was the eponymous archon.

Hyllarima remained an important local religious centre throughout the Roman period; a dedication of the 2nd century CE compares the emperor Antoninus Pius to Zeus Hyllos.