Leuca
Leuca the name given by Pomponius Mela (1.16), to a district on the west of Halicarnassus, between that city and Myndus. Pliny (Plin. Nat. 5.29) mentions a town, Leucopolis, in the same neighbourhood, of which, however, nothing else is known to us.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.