Urla-Karaburun-Çeşme Peninsula

[2] The peninsula extends from İzmir to the west, into the Aegean Sea, and lies opposite the Greek island of Chios.

A narrow strip of plain on the east divides the Urla region of the peninsula from the western extension of Mount Nif and the Bozdağlar mountains.

[4] The Karaburun ("black cape") peninsula in the north is either named for its dark colored cliffs or according to the old Turkish convention for the cardinal directions.

In the Odyssey, Nestor tells Telemachus that some of the Greeks returning from Troy considered sailing between Chios and "the stormy headland of Mimas.

"[7] The three promontories formed by Mount Mimas were Melaena (present-day Karaburun), Argennum (Çeşme) and Coryceum (Koraka Burnu, in the south).