Gulf of Kuşadası

The Gulf of Kuşadası ( tr, Kuşadası Körfezi) is a small

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and strait in the

Aegean Sea The Aegean Sea ; tr, Ege Denizi (Greek: Αιγαίο Πέλαγος: "Egéo Pélagos", Turkish: "Ege Denizi" or "Adalar Denizi") is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea between Europe and Asia. It is located between the Balkans ...

, separating the

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island of

Samos Samos (, also ; el, Σάμος ) is a Greece, Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea, south of Chios, north of Patmos and the Dodecanese, and off the coast of western Turkey, from which it is separated by the -wide Mycale Strait. It is also a se ...

from the mainland of

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Kuşadası Kuşadası () is a large resort town on Turkey's Aegean coast, and the center of the seaside district of the same name within Aydın Province. Kuşadası is south of İzmir, and about from Aydın. The municipality's primary industry is tour ...

is a resort town on Turkey's western Aegean coast, on the Gulf of Kuşadası. Samos in Greece borders the Gulf of Kuşadası to the north and east, and the mainland of Turkey borders the Gulf of Kuşadası to the west. The

Mycale Strait The Mycale Strait ( el, Στενό της Μυκάλης; tr, Dilek Geçidi) is a narrow strait separating the island of Samos from Anatolia (Turkey) in the eastern Aegean Sea. At its narrowest point it is only 1.6 km wide; the narrowest betw ...

also separates Samos Island from the Turkish mainland, and connects the Gulf of Kuşadası to the waters southwest of Turkey and south of the island of Samos. On 30 October 2020, a deadly 7.0

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struck the gulf and triggered a small tsunami, killing 117 people in

and two on the island of Samos. {{DEFAULTSORT:Gulf of Kusadasi Straits of Turkey International straits Greece–Turkey border Straits of Greece Kuşadası Kusadasi Kusadasi Landforms of Samos Landforms of the North Aegean