MILETUS
Seaport where Paul stopped (Acts 20:15). From there, the apostle called the elders of Ephesus to bid them farewell in a solemn manner (Acts 20:17-38).
In 2 Tim. 4:20 the apostle Paul says that he had left Trophimus sick in Miletus. This important city of Ionia was located around 60 km south of Ephesus, on the borders of Caria and on the southern shore of the bay of Latmus into which the Menander flowed.
The philosophers Thales, Democritus and Anaximander were born in this city. There was a famous temple dedicated to Apollo and a magnificent theater there.