Boğsak ( tr, Boğsak Adası) is a
Mediterranean
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western Europe, Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa ...
islet in
Mersin Province
Mersin Province ( tr, ), formerly İçel Province ( tr, ), is a province in southern Turkey, on the Mediterranean coast between Antalya and Adana. The provincial capital and the biggest city in the province is Mersin, which is composed of f ...
,
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...
.
Geography
The islet is located off shore from the main land facing a small settlement with the same name. Administratively it is a part of
İmamuşağı village of
Silifke
Silifke ( grc-gre, Σελεύκεια, ''Seleukeia'', la, Seleucia ad Calycadnum) is a town and district in south-central Mersin Province, Turkey, west of the city of Mersin, on the west end of Çukurova.
Silifke is near the Mediterranean co ...
district of Mersin Province. It is at . The distance from the main land to Silifke is and to
Mersin is .
History
Although there is no settlement on the islet, it was inhabited in the late antiquity. Stadiasmus Maris Magni of the second half of the 3rd century mentions the ''λιμὴν Νησούλιον'' (harbor, of the small island)
News of Archaeology from ANATOLIA’S MEDITERRANEAN AREAS
/ref> According to an inscription of the 6th century the name of the settlement on the islet was as ''Άστερήα'' and it was probably a wealthy village, ruins of which are partially preserved .
Boğsak Bay
Boğsak bay is a bay on Mediterranean coast facing east (i.e., Baoğsak islet) There are some summer houses and hotels on the bay. In the bay and around the island the popular sports activity is diving
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Islands of Turkey
Islands of Mersin Province
Silifke District
Mediterranean islands