Cape Tisan is a headland on the Mediterranean sea

Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Anatolia and Europe, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant...

 coast of Mersin Province

Mersin Province

The Mersin Province is a province in southern Turkey, on the Mediterranean coast between Antalya and Adana. The provincial capital is the city of Mersin and the other major town is Tarsus, birthplace of St Paul...

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Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

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Geography

The cape is near to Yeşilovacık

Yeşilovacık

Yeşilovacık is a town in Mersin Province, Turkey.-Geography:Yeşilovacık is a Mediterranean coastal town at .It is a part of Silifke district which in turn is a part of Mersin Province. The town is...

 town in Silifke

Silifke

-Antiquity:Located a few miles from the mouth of the Calycadnus River, Seleucia was founded by Seleucus I Nicator in the early 3rd century BCE, one of several cities he named after himself. It is probable that there were already towns called Olbia and Hyria and that Seleucus I merely united them...

 district of Mersin Province. It is at 36°08′N 33°41′E The distance to Silifke is 52 kilometres (32.3 mi) and to Mersin

Mersin

-Mersin today:Today, Mersin is a large city spreading out along the coast, with Turkey's second tallest skyscraper , huge hotels, an opera house, expensive real estate near the sea or up in the hills, and many other modern urban...

 is 135 kilometres (83.9 mi).

The cape and the surrounding

The cape is actually the southern most point of a circular spit

Spit (landform)

A spit or sandspit is a deposition landform found off coasts. At one end, spits connect to land, and extend into the sea. A spit is a type of bar or beach that develops where a re-entrant occurs, such as at cove's headlands, by the process of longshore drift...

 of roughly 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) diameter connected to the mainland by an isthmus. The spit is famous for being home to Aphrodisias of Cilicia

Aphrodisias of Cilicia

Aphrodisias of Cilicia is the name given to the ruins of an ancient port city in Mersin Province , Turkey.- Geography :Aphrodisias is situated on Cape Tisan near the town of Yeşilovacık in the rural area of Silifke district which itself is a part of Mersin Province...

 and the istmus has a pair of bays one in each side. In the Middle Ages the east bay was named Limni Aphrodisias and the west bay was named Limni Etheros . Modern popular names are Cleopatra's bay for the east bay and Pirates' bay for the west bay. Both bays are popular beaches and in fact the cape is named after a site of marine resorts just north of the isthmus. However owing to dominant lodos

Lodos

The lodos is the strong south-westerly wind which predominates the Aegean Sea and Marmara Sea as well as the Mediterranean Coast of Turkey all the year round; it frequently raises high seas and may give violent westerly squalls...

winds of the Mediterranean coast, the Pirates' bay is not as sheltered as the Cleoptra's bay.