The Mediterranean port of Izmir was once Turkey’s most cosmopolitan destination. While it lost its crown in the 1920s, it’s still full of historical charm and its fortunes are rising once again.

But I do not think it has ever occurred to me with such poignancy as in Izmir, the city the Greeks once called Smyrna, before their 3,000-year-old living presence in Asia Minor was all but expunged.

The elegiac documentary Smyrna: The Destruction of a Cosmopolitan City (1900-1922) brings to light a modern-day tragedy with which most viewers will be probably unfamiliar.Maria Iliou’s film ...

The theater in the ancient city of Smyrna seated around 20,000 people. Researchers already knew that a separate set of latrines near the theater served audience members.

IZMIR, Turkey. In the ancient city of Smyrna – located within the borders of the modern city of Izmir, Turkey – archaeologists have uncovered a communal commode facility at a theater over ...

Istanbul was Constantinople, just as today’s Aegean-coast metropolis of Izmir, Turkey, was once Old Smyrna—an ancient Greek settlement that would eventually be fortified by Alexander ...

Ancient Roman, Ionian and Bronze Age Ruins Discovered in Turkish City of Izmir. News. November 28, 2021. Officials in Turkey take a winding path through streets and alleys in the city of Izmir, ...

Meeting refugees from Syria in the Turkish city of Izmir, Fergal Keane reflects on the fate of Greeks and Armenians killed or forced to leave in World War I.