Bakirçay (Latin name:
Caicus, also
Caecus; ,
transliterated as
Kaïkos; formerly
Astraeus) is the current name of a river of
Asia Minor that rises in the
Temnus mountains and flows through
Lydia,
Mysia, and
Aeolis before it
debouches into the
Elaitic Gulf. To the
Hittites, it may have been the
Seha river, however the modern Gediz river further south is a more likely candidate. The modern
Turkish name of the river is
Bakirçay (formerly the Aksu), and it is located in the
Asian part of
Turkey.