Bakırçay
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Bakırçay ancient names: Kaïkos, Caicus |
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| location | Provinces Manisa , İzmir ( Turkey ) | |
| River system | Bakırçay | |
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Gelenbe Çayı and Sarmandere near Karakurt 39 ° 7 ′ 32 ″ N , 27 ° 49 ′ 7 ″ E |
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| muzzle | in the Bay of Çandarlı Coordinates: 38 ° 55 ′ 57 " N , 26 ° 57 ′ 56" E 38 ° 55 ′ 57 " N , 26 ° 57 ′ 56" E |
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0 m
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| length | 129 km | |
| Right tributaries | Yortanlı Deresi, Yağcılı Çayı | |
| Medium-sized cities | Kırkağaç , Soma , Bergama | |
The Bakırçay ( Turkish for "Copper River") is a river in the historical Mysia landscape in western Asia Minor .
Kaïkos (Latinized Caicus ) is the ancient name of the Bakırçay river, the Hittite name may have been Seha. Another old name is Aduros . The ancient divine personification of the river bears the same name .
The sources of the Kaïkos are in the west of the Temnos Mountains on today's Ömer Dağı , south of Balıkesir . In Livy and Pliny this landscape is called Teuthrania . The Kaïkos plains were densely populated and very fertile. The mouth into the sea was in the Aiolis between Elaia and Pitane , in today's Bay of Çandarlı ( Bay of Elaia ). This was pushed far out by alluvial deposits. The cities of Kırkağaç , Soma and Bergama (on the site of the old Pergamon ) lie on the river .
Ancient sources
Kaïkos is mentioned by Herodotus (6.28 and 7.42), Xenophon (Anabasis 7,8,18), Strabo (12,8,12 and 13,1,70), Arrian (Anabasis 5,6, 4) and Pausanias (1,10,4 and 5,13,3).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Trevor Bryce: The Routledge Handbook of the Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia , Taylor & Francis, 2009 p. 628 ISBN 9780415394857
- ↑ Gustav Hirschfeld : Aduros . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 440.
- ↑ 37.37.3
- ↑ nat. 5.125