Mycale
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Mycale also Mykale, called Samsun Dağı and Dilek Dağı 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 isl
The flanks of Mycale behind Priene
Mount Mycale seen from the island of Samos, across the Mycale Strait.
Cypress in maquis
Ionia
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Ionia was an ancient region encompassing the central part of the western coast of Anatolia. It consisted of the northernmost territories of the Ionian League of Greek settlements. Never a unified stat
Mycale
…south flank is mainly escarpment. In classical Greece nearly the entire ridge was a promontory enclosed by the Aegean Sea. Geopolitically it was part of Ionia with Priene placed on the coast on the south flank of the mountain and Miletus on the coast opposite to the south across the deep embayment into which…
Gorgone with serpent, Ionia, 575-550 BC.
One of the earliest electrum coins struck in Ephesus, 620–600 BC. Obverse: Forepart of stag. Reverse: Square incuse punch.
Ionian soldier of the Achaemenid army, c. 480 BCE.