Küçük Menderes, ("Little Meander"),
Cayster River or
Kaystros River is located south of
Izmir,
Turkey. The Cayster generally flows westward and arrive into the
Aegean Sea at Pamucak beach near
Selçuk,
Izmir. The ancient city of
Ephesus was once an important
port on the Cayster, but over the centuries,
sedimentation gradually filled in the inlet around the city. The coastlines moved seaward and the ruins of Ephesus are now some inland from the coast.