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Beşparmak Mountains (Turkey)


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    • Beşparmak Dağları (Turkey)
    • Latmos Mountains (Turkey)
    • Latmus Mountains (Turkey)
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    • found: Work cat.: Feldforschungen im Latmos, 2005:v. 1, plate 2, map (Beşparmak/Latmos-Gebirge; adjacent to Bafa Lake and the site of the extinct city of Herakleia)
    • found: SEB-Tours WWW site, Nov. 26, 2008:Bafa Lake page (The lake is surrounded by the Latmos Mountains (Turkish: "Besparmak") which rise up to 1400 meters)
    • found: Wiegand, T. Der Latmos, 1913.
    • found: Peschlow-Bindokat, A. Der Latmos : eine unbekannte Gebirgslandschaft an der türkischen Westküste, ©1996(title translates as: The Latmos : an unknown mountain landscape on the Turkish west coast)
    • found: Wikipedia, Apr. 22, 2019(Beşparmak Mountains (Latin: Latmus; Ancient Greek: Latmos) are a ridge of many spurs located in the Muğla and Aydın provinces of Turkey, running in an east-west direction along the north shore of the former Latmian Gulf on the coast of Caria, which became part of Hellenised Ionia. The city of Latmus, located on the south slopes of Mount Latmus 25 kilometres (16 mi) east of Miletus, was originally a port on the narrow gulf, as reported by Strabo. He also states that Latmus is the same as Mount Phthires in the Catalogue of Trojans)
    • found: GEOnet names server, Apr. 22, 2019(Beşparmak Dağları, mountains, Turkey, Muğla province, 37°28ʹ01ʺN, 027°46ʹ06ʺE (37.467015, 27.768441))
    • notfound: Geonames;Lippincott;Web. geog.;Peakbagger.com, Apr. 22, 2019;Peakware World mountain encyclopedia, via WWW, Apr. 22, 2019
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    • 2009-01-29: new
    • 2019-10-04: revised
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