Cape Baba

Cape Baba (Turkish: Baba Burnu) or Cape Lecton (Ancient Greek: Λεκτόν)[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.

[3] 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.

The Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary explains:In sailing southward from Troas to Assos, one has to round Cape Lecture, and keeping due east to run along the northern shore of the Gulf of Adramyttium, on which it lies.

The one way Paul wished his companions to take, while he himself, longing perhaps to enjoy a period of solitude, took the other, joining the ship, by appointment, at Assos.