Garip Island

Kalem Island (Turkish: Kalem Adası, literally "Pen Island") is an Aegean island of Turkey. Administratively, the island is a part of Dikili ilçe (district) of İzmir Province at 9°0′12″N 26°47′42″E. It is close to Bademli town and its distance to main land (Anatolia) is about 400 metres (1,300 ft). It is a narrow island where the maximum length in the north to south direction is about 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) The island and Garip Island to the west were known as Arginusae islands (Greek: Ἀργινούσαι Arginóusai) in antiquity. The naval battle of Arginusae was fought around Kalem island in 406 B.C. Presently the island is a private property. There is a hotel and a beach for the tourists and the divers.

The Battle of Arginusae took place in 406 BC during the Peloponnesian War near the city of Canae in the Arginusae Islands, east of the island of Lesbos. In the battle, an Athenian fleet commanded by eight strategoi defeated a Spartan fleet under Callicratidas. The battle was precipitated by a Spartan victory, which led to the Athenian fleet under Conon being blockaded at Mytilene. To relieve Conon, the Athenians assembled a scratch force composed largely of newly-constructed ships manned by inexperienced crews. The inexperienced fleet was thus tactically inferior to the Spartans, but its commanders circumvented the problem by employing new and unorthodox tactics, which allowed the Athenians to secure a dramatic and unexpected victory. Slaves and metics who participated in the battle may have been granted Athenian citizenship. The news of the victory itself was met with jubilation at Athens. Their joy was tempered, however, by the aftermath of the battle, in which a storm prevented the ships assigned to rescue the survivors of the 25 disabled or sunken Athenian triremes from performing their duties, and a great number of sailors drowned. A fury erupted at Athens when the public learned of that, and a bitter struggle occurred after which the assembly tried and executed as a group six of the eight commanding generals. At Sparta, meanwhile, traditionalists who had supported Callicratidas pressed for peace with Athens since they knew that a continuation of the war would lead to the reascendence of their opponent Lysander. The party initially prevailed, and a delegation was dispatched to Athens to make an offer of peace. The Athenians, however, rejected the offer, and Lysander departed to the Aegean to take command of the fleet for the remainder of the war, which would be decided less than a year later by his total victory at the Battle of Aegospotami.

Canae (Ancient Greek: Κάναι; Turkish: Kane) was, in classical antiquity, a city in ancient Aeolis, on the island of Argennusa in the Aegean Sea off the modern Dikili Peninsula on the coast of modern-day Turkey, near the modern village of Bademli. Today Argennusa has joined the mainland as the Kane Promontory off the Dikili Peninsula. Canae is famous as the site of the Battle of Arginusae in 406 B.C.Canae is mentioned by the ancient writers Herodotus, Strabo, Pliny, Livy, Ptolemy, Sappho, Thucydides, and Mela.

Bademli is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Dikili, İzmir Province, Turkey. Its population is 1,244 (2022). Dikili is 7 kilometres (4 mi) to north. Aegean Sea coast is 1.3 kilometres (0.8 mi) to west.

Lysimachia or Lysimachea (Ancient Greek: Λυσιμαχία) or Lysimacheia (Λυσιμάχεια) was a small town in ancient Mysia, mentioned only by Pliny the Elder, in whose time it no longer existed.Its site is tentatively located near the modern Hatıplar in İzmir Province, Turkey.

Denizköy (literally "sea village") is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Dikili, İzmir Province, Turkey. Its population is 325 (2022). It is situated on the Aegean Sea side.

Merdivenli is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Dikili, İzmir Province, Turkey. Its population is 196 (2022). It is situated to the south of Dikili.

Yahşibey is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Dikili, İzmir Province, Turkey. Its population is 234 (2022). It is 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) east of the Aegean Sea coast and it is almost merged to Bademli.

Katıralanı is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Dikili, İzmir Province, Turkey. Its population is 126 (2022). It is situated to the south of Dikili.

Atarneus (Ancient Greek: Ἀταρνεύς), called Atarneus sub Pitanem to distinguish it from the other city of the name, was a town of ancient Aeolis near Pitane.Its site is located near Gavurgör, Asiatic Turkey.

Uzunburun is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Dikili, İzmir Province, Turkey. Its population is 224 (2022). It is situated to the east of Dikili.

Esentepe is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Dikili, İzmir Province, Turkey. Its population is 257 (2022). It is situated on the road connecting Dikili to Çandarlı. The distance to Dikili is 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) and to İzmir is 102 kilometres (63 mi).