Leucae (Ionia)

Leucae, also known as Leuce, was a small town of ancient Ionia, near Phocaea, in what is now Turkey. According to the Roman writer Pliny it stood on an island promontory, and the geographer Scylax records that it had harbours. Diodorus writes that the Persian admiral Tachos founded the town on a coastal height in 352 BC, but that shortly after his death the neighbouring cities of Clazomenae and Cyme quarrelled over its possession, with Clazomenae eventually seizing it by a stratagem. Leucae later became notable for a battle fought nearby between the Roman consul Publius Licinius Crassus Dives Mucianus and Aristonicus in 131 BC. The site of ancient Leucae is at Uctepeler, in Izmir Province, Turkey, some distance inland from the modern coast. Coins were minted at Leucae during the 3rd century BC. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/