Mount Mycale

Mount Mycale
Μυκάλη Samsun Daği
The flanks of Mycale behind Priene
Highest point
Elevation	1,237 m (4,058 ft) at Dilek Tepesi, the high point; 600 metres (1,969 ft) average
Coordinates	37°40′N 27°05′E / 37.667°N 27.083°E / 37.667; 27.083Coordinates: 37°40′N 27°05′E / 37.667°N 27.083°E / 37.667; 27.083
Naming
Translation	Samson's Mountain (Turkish language)
Geography
Mount Mycale Aydin Province, Republic of Turkey
Parent range	Aydin Mountain Range in the Menderes Massif
Geology
Mountain type	Ridge, 200 kilometres (124 mi) long
Climbing
Easiest route	Hike

Mycale (/ˈmɪkəli/). also Mykale and Mykali (Ancient Greek: Μυκάλη), 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. The mountain forms a ridge, terminating in what was known anciently as the Trogilium promontory (Ancient Greek Τρωγίλιον or Τρωγύλιον). There are several beaches on the north shore ranging from sand to pebbles. The 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 the Maeander River drained. Somewhat further north was Ephesus.

The ruins of the first two Ionian cities mentioned with their harbor facilities remain but today are several miles inland overlooking instead a rich agricultural plain and delta parkland created by deposition of sediments from the river, which continues to form the geological feature named after it, maeanders. The end of the former bay remains as a lake, Çamiçi Gölü (Lake Bafa). Samsun Daği does retain a promontory.