Listed 4 sub titles with search on: Various locations for destination: "KOLOFON Ancient city TURKEY".
Place near Colophon.
River at Colophon, coldest river of Ionia.
After Colophon one comes to the mountain Coracius and to an isle sacred to Artemis, whither deer, it has been believed, swim across and give birth to their young.
Coracius Mons (to Korakion oros) is placed by Strabo between Colophon
and Lebedus. As the word Korakion is an adjective, the name of the mountain may
be Corax. When Strabo speaks of a mountain between Colophon and Lebedus, he means
that some high land is crossed in going from one place to the other; but this
high land runs north, and occupies the tract that extends from Colophon and Lebedus
north, towards the gulf of Smyrna. Chandler therefore may be right when he gives
the name Corax to the mountains which were on his left hand as he passed from
Smyrna to Vourla, near the site of Clazomenae. (Asia Minor, c. 23.)
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