Phoenicus (Ionia)

Phoenicus or Phoinikous () was a port of ancient Ionia, at the foot of Mount Mimas (modern Boz Dağ; on the Karaburun Peninsula). Thucydides writes that during the Peloponnesian War after the Battle of Arginusae, the Athenian fleet took refuge in the harbour due to a big storm.Thucydides, Peloponnesian War, §8.34 Livy notices it in his account of the naval operations of the Romans and their allies against Antiochus III the Great.

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