Mount Cadmus
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Cadmus or Cadmos (Greek: Κάδμος), is the ancient name of a mountain of Phrygia Magna (Strabo p. 578), which is the modern Topçambaba Dağı (formerly Baba Dağı or Baba Dagh), in Aydın Province, Turkey. In antiquity, the sides were well wooded. A river Cadmus flowed from the mountain that flowed into the Lycus, a tributary of the Maeander. (Hamilton, Researches, &c., vol. i. p. 513.) The range of Cadmus formed the southern boundary of the basin of the Maeander in these parts. Pliny's remark about it (v. 29) does not help us. Ptolemy (v. 2) puts it in the latitude of Mycale, which is tolerably correct.
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- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography by William Smith (1857).
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