Cape Baba
Template:Short description Cape Baba (Template:Langx) or Cape Lecton (Template:Langx)[1] is the westernmost point of the Turkish mainland, making it the westernmost point of Asia. It is located at the village of Babakale ("Father Castle"), Ayvacık, Çanakkale, in the historical area of the Troad. There was a lighthouse at Cape Baba that was called Lekton (Latinized as Lectum) in classical times,[2] anglicised as Cape Lecture.[3]
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Cape Lecton is mentioned in Homer's Iliad,[4] and by many ancient writers and geographers, including Herodotus,[5] Thucydides,[6] Aristotle,[7] Livy,[8] Plutarch,[9] Strabo,[10] Pliny the Elder,[11] Athenaeus[12] and Ptolemaeus.[13]
The Acts of the Apostles records a journey around the Cape from Troas to Assos undertaken by Luke the Evangelist and his companions, while Paul the Apostle took the journey over land (Script error: No such module "Bibleverse".). The Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary explains:Template:Quote
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- ↑ William Smith, ed. (1854) Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (entry Lectum) Retrieved September 25, 2013
- ↑ Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary on Acts 20 http://biblehub.com/commentaries/jfb//acts/20.htm accessed 13 October 2015
- ↑ Homer, Iliad, 14.284
- ↑ Herodotus, The Histories, 9.114
- ↑ Thucydides, Peloponnesian War, 8.101
- ↑ Aristotle, History of Animals, 5.15.3
- ↑ Livy, History of Rome, 37
- ↑ Plutarch, Life of Lucullus, 3.8
- ↑ Strabo, Geography, 13.1.2
- ↑ Pliny the Elder, Natural History
- ↑ Athenaeus, Deipnosophists, 3.88
- ↑ Ptolemaeus, Geography, 5.2.4
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