TORISM AND HOLIDAY AEGEAN IZMIR

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Alsancak, İzmir

I think that Izmir, one of the most beautiful and spectacular cities for tourism and holidays so Let's take a look at some of the information and photos about it 

İzmir is a large metropolis in the western extremity of Anatolia  it  had a population of 3.35 million as of 2010.

İzmir's cuisine has largely been affected by its multicultural history, hence the large variety of food originating from the Aegean, Mediterranean and Anatolian regions

İzmir one of the oldest settlements of the Mediterranean basin,The city of origin (Bayrakli today) was founded in the third millennium before Jesus Christ and knew at the time, be with Troy, the most developed civilization of western Anatolia.

From 1500 before Jesus Christ, it fell under the domination of the Hittite empire (central Anatolia). In the first millennium before Jesus Christ, Izmir, then known as the Smyrna, is among the most important cities of the Ionian Federation. At that time, one of the most brilliant, Homer is said to be inhabited.

The Roman period, from the first century before Jesus Christ, restored life to izmir. The Byzantines captured it in the fourth century, and the Seljuks in the eleventh century until between Izmir in the Ottoman Empire in 1415 under Sultan Mehmet Celebi.