İzmir

Who is recorded here

• Polycarp birth · AD 69
• Apelles of Heraklion death · AD 100
• Irenaeus birth · AD 130
• Papias of Hierapolis death · AD 140
• Polycarp death · AD 155

In art

• View of Smyrna (Izmir) — N. Knop (1779)
• Smyrne, Bournabat — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1873)
• Restaurant in Smyrna — Théodore Ralli (1900)
• Smyrna. From the journey to Greece — Jan Ciągliński (1905)
• Smyrna (Bazaar) — Jan Ciągliński (1910)

About the place

İzmir, often still called in English by its Greek name of Smyrna, is the third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara, and the largest metropolitan area on the Aegean Sea. It is on the Aegean coast of Anatolia, and is the capital of İzmir Province.

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