Büyük Menderes River
The town reaches approximately at its highest elevation, with mountainous terrain surrounding it to the north within the peninsula. This is a result of Turkey's fault block features – the convergence of the Anatolian plate against that of the Aegean Sea Plate – and the wide range of mountains in western Turkey and the Aegean Region surrounding the Büyük Menderes River to the south, collectively referred to as the Menderes Massif.