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Küçük Menderes ("Little Meander"), Cayster River, Caystrus River or Kaystros River (Ancient Greek: Κάϋστρος, romanized: Káÿstros) is a river south of İzmir, Turkey. It generally flows westward and arrives at the Aegean Sea at Pamucak beach, near Selçuk , İzmir .
As the river Cayster (Grk. name Κάϋστρος) silted up the old harbour, the resulting marshes caused malaria and many deaths among the inhabitants. Lysimachus forced the people to move from the ancient settlement around the temple of Artemis to the present site two kilometres (1.2 miles) away, when as a last resort the king flooded the old ...
Ephesus was originally placed on the lower slopes of a 300 m (980 ft) NE-SW mountain, Bülbüldağ, on the south coast of the estuary of the Cayster River, then deep water. It was able to maintain its position as a deep-water port until about 750 BC.
Hypaepa or Hypaipa (Ancient Greek: Ὕπαιπα) [1] was an Ancient city and (arch)bishopric in ancient Lydia, near the north bank of the Cayster River, and 42 miles from Ephesus, Ephesus [2] [3] and remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
Euaza, located in what is modern Turkey was a town during the Hellenic, Roman and Byzantine era. The town was in the upper portion of the Cayster River valley, about 100 km east from Ephesus.
Larisa (Ancient Greek: Λάρισα) was a town of ancient Ionia. Strabo distinguishes it from other homonymous cities of Asia Minor, mentioning that the Larisa of Ionia was in the Cayster River plain, 180 stadia from Ephesus, where there was a sanctuary of Apollo Larisaeus.
The river has its sources not far from Celaenae in Phrygia (now Dinar), [1] where it gushed forth in a park of Cyrus. [2] According to some [3] its sources were the same as those of the river Marsyas; but this is irreconcilable with Xenophon, according to whom the sources of the two rivers were only near each other, the Marsyas rising in a royal palace. [4]
Magnesia ad Sipylum (Greek: Mαγνησία ἡ πρὸς Σιπύλῳ or Mαγνησία ἡ ἐπὶ Σιπύλου; modern Manisa, Turkey) was a city of Lydia, situated about 65 km northeast of Smyrna (now İzmir) on the river Hermus (now Gediz) at the foot of Mount Sipylus.