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Telmissicus Sinus

Telmissicus Sinus a bay between Lycia and Caria, which derived its name from the Lycian town of Telmessus (Liv. 37.16; Lucan 8.248); but it is more commonly known by the name Glaucus Sinus, and is at present called the Bay of Macri.

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.