Miletus = "pure white fine wool"

 1) a maritime city, now nearly 10 miles (16 km), from the coast of
    Caria or Ionia, near the mouth of the Maeander and 35 miles (55
    km) from Ephesus. It was the mother of about eighty colonies, the
    the birth place of Thales, Anaximander, and other famous men.