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Mycale (/ ˈ m ɪ k ə l i /) also Mykale and Mykali (Ancient Greek: Μυκάλη, Mykálē), called Samsun Dağı and Dilek Dağı (Dilek Peninsula) in modern Turkey, is a mountain on the west coast of central Anatolia in Turkey, north of the mouth of the Maeander and divided from the Greek island of Samos by the 1.6 km wide Mycale Strait.
[83] [76] Burn also found a repeat of the Battle of Mycale in the Battle of the Eurymedon, fought by the Athenian general Cimon against the Persians in 466 BC. [84] After Mycale, the state of Teos would create multiple imprecations to be used on people who exploited the role of the aesymnetes (elected official) to become tyrants. [85]
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The Mycale Strait. The Mycale Strait (Greek: Στενό της Μυκάλης; Turkish: Dilek Geçidi), also known as the Samos Strait, is a narrow strait separating the island of Samos (Greece) from Anatolia in the eastern Aegean Sea. At its narrowest point it is only 1.6 km wide; the narrowest between any Aegean island and Turkey.
A full map of the national park including the names of ancient cities The national park is 27,598 ha (68,200 acres) in total land area, with the peninsula itself having an area of about 110 km 2 (42 sq mi), with a width of around 6 km (3.7 mi) from north to south and a length of 20 km (12 mi) east to west.
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The approximate location of the Panionium is given by several ancient writers. For example, Herodotus says it is on "Mycale facing north", [1] and Strabo says it is "after the Samian strait, near Mt. Mycale, as one sails to Ephesus…lying three stadia above the sea". [5] However, the exact location of the site was lost.
Previously there were about 26, but most of these have been reallocated as sub-genera of the remaining two genera, Mycale and Phlyctaenopora: [1] Genus Mycale Gray, 1867 subgenus Mycale (Aegogropila) Gray, 1867 - About 37 species.