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...Mimas (now Kara Burun) peninsula in western Turkey. The original site of traditionally Cretan and later Ionian settlement is uncertain, but from the 4th century bc the city was located at modern Ildir, where traces of the wall circuit, theatre, and citadel are visible.
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