Ancient City of Ephesus

The first era, which is one of the most famous cities of the ancient city of Ephesus, Küçük Menderes River, near the waters of the bay was vacated. Arable lands, a great trade route to the East being opened, both paganism and Christianity in the fact that a very important religious center,
date, have put in a great city. Announced the name of science and art in the world, famous people trained.

Within the boundaries of the ancient city of Ephesus, Izmir Province Selcuk district of BC, the first company 6000 years, the so-called Neolithic polished down to the Stone Age. In recent years, research and excavations in the mounds around Ephesus (prehistoric settlement hill) and the castle was Ayasuluk Hill Bronze Age and in Hittite. Apasas'tır the Hittites, the city's name. BC Immigrants from Greece in 1050 began to live in the port city of Ephesus, BC Moved from the Temple of Artemis in 560. Doday Ephesus, BC by Alexander the Great's generals Lysimakhos Founded 300 years. Living in Hellenistic and Roman times, the most glorious periods in Ephesus, the capital of the province of Asia, and the largest port city had a population of 200,000 people. Ephesus, Byzantine Era was established for the first time changed again and Ayasuluk Hill in Selçuk. Ayasuluk taken by the Turks in 1330 and Aydınoğulları center, 16th century began to shrink gradually from, after the establishment of the Republic in 1923, received the name of Selcuk and today is a tourist with a population of 30,000.