Izmir

Izmir is the third-largest city in Turkey. Located in the coastal part of the Aegean region, the city founded on the Gulf of Izmir. Many fairs held in Izmir during the world era. Besides this, Izmir is a developed port city. Given its surface area, Izmir is the twenty-third most significant city in Turkey. Thanks to its location Izmir has expanded both in terms of its natural beauty and its historic structures. The Aegean Sea and islands located to the west of the city.

History Of Izmir

Izmir, Smyrna, with its former name, is located on an Islet located in the northeast of the Aegean Bay and has a surface area of approximately one hundred acres. The shaft brought by the floods from Meles Creek and Mount Sipylos (Mount Yamanlar) formed The Plain of today's Bornova, and the region transformed into a hill of half an islet. According to the results obtained from Symrna excavations, the Bronze Age houses of Izmir placed on rocks 3 to 5 meters above the sea at the highest level of the mound. This settlement shows that Izmir used as a settlement area during the old Bronze Age. The pottery and pottery found in the region show similarities with the Troy period and culture (3000-2500 BC). It known that there were five different settlement ages in the area. These;

→ I.Aiol settlement (1050 BC-1000 BC)
→ II. Early, middle and late Protogeometric settlement (1000 BC-875 BC)
→ III. Early and Middle geometric settlement (875 BC - 750 BC)
→ IV. Late geometric settlement (750 BC-675 BC)
→ V. Subgeometric placement (675 BC-650 BC)