Cape Baba () or Cape Lecton () is the westernmost point of the Turkish mainland, making it the westernmost point of Asia. It is located at the village of Babakale ("Father Castle"), Ayvacık, Çanakkale, in the historical area of the Troad. There was a lighthouse at Cape Baba that was called Lekton (Latinized as Lectum) in classical times,William Smith, ed. (1854) Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (entry Lectum) Retrieved September 25, 2013 anglicised as Cape Lecture.Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary on Acts 20 http://biblehub.com/commentaries/jfb//acts/20.htm accessed 13 October 2015
Cape Lecton is mentioned in Homer's Iliad,Homer, Iliad, 14.284 and by many ancient writers and geographers, including Herodotus,Herodotus, The Histories, 9.114 Thucydides,Thucydides, Peloponnesian War, 8.101 Aristotle,Aristotle, History of Animals, 5.15.3 Livy,Livy, History of Rome, 37 Plutarch,Plutarch, Life of Lucullus, 3.8 Strabo,Strabo, Geography, 13.1.2 Pliny the Elder,Pliny the Elder, Natural History AthenaeusAthenaeus, Deipnosophists, 3.88 and Ptolemaeus.Ptolemaeus, Geography, 5.2.4
The Acts of the Apostles records a journey around the Cape from Troas to Assos undertaken by Luke the Evangelist and his companions, while Paul the Apostle took the journey over land (). The Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary explains:
See also Babakale, Ayvacık Babakale Castle
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Babakale (near Cape Baba)