Mount Cadmus
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Topçambaba Dağı is a mountain in Aydın Province
Aydin Province
Aydın Province is a province of southwestern Turkey, located in the Aegean Region. The provincial capital is the city of Aydın which has a population of approx. 150,000 . Other towns in the province include the summer seaside resorts of Didim and Kuşadası.-History:Aydın was founded by the ancient...

, Turkey
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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Cadmus or Cadmos was the ancient Greek name; it was then in Phrygia Magna. In antiquity, the sides were well wooded. A river Cadmus
Cadmus (river)
Cadmus or Cadmos , was the ancient name for a river that flowed from Mount Cadmus, in ancient Phrygia. The river, probably the modern Gieuk Bonar , which flows into the Lycus, a tributary of the Maeander....

 flowed from the mountain that flowed into the Lycus
Lycus (river of Phrygia)
Lycus or Lykos was the name of a river in ancient Phrygia, a tributary of the Maeander, which it joins a few km south of Tripolis. It had its sources in the eastern parts of Mount Cadmus Lycus or Lykos was the name of a river in ancient Phrygia, a tributary of the Maeander, which it joins a few...

, a tributary of the Maeander.. The range of Cadmus formed the southern boundary of the basin of the Maeander in these parts. Pliny
Pliny the Elder
Gaius Plinius Secundus , better known as Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, and natural philosopher, as well as naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and personal friend of the emperor Vespasian...

's remark about it does not help us. Ptolemy puts it in the latitude of Mycale
Mycale
Mycale, also Mykale and Mycali , called Samsun Daği and Dilek Daği 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 1300 metre wide Samos Strait...

, which is tolerably correct.
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