Izmir, historically the Smyrna, Turkey's third largest city after Istanbul and the country's second largest port city. Except that in waters along the Gulf of Izmir and the Aegean Sea is located. This Ontario province, has an area of 7350 km2 seat. London Hotels twelve metropolitan counties (Balçova, flagged, Bornova, Buca, Cigli, Gaziemir, Güzelbahçe, Karabağlar, Karsiyaka, Konak, Menemen, Narlıdere and bagged), each with its own distinct features and temperament, but all consist Mayor City led. Province's total population was 3,795,978 at the end of 2008. metropolitan district of the city which middle of the field has a total area of 855 km2 (330 sq mi) and a population of 2,606,294.
Izmir (Izmir See Timeline) and even an improved human settlements as long recorded history of the city is almost 3500 years. advantageous from a cliff into a deep notch on the west coast of Anatolia at the beginning of work in half-reclining, the city's most historic cities has become a major trade of the Mediterranean. Turkey's main port handled cargo to the port for exports and free zone, a Turkish-US joint venture in 1990, founded a leader among the twenty Turkey. His labor and young professionals, especially the rising class, the city or in its immediate vicinity (eg, Manisa and Turgutlu, etc.), concentrated, and either large companies or SMEs, under the increasingly global in scale and intensity of his name confirmed. Common in the Turkish city of Izmir, one of the most progressive in his values, lifestyle, dynamism and gender roles are considered in terms. Politically, the Republican People's Party is considered a stronghold.
The region of İzmir was situated on the southern fringes of the "Yortan culture" in Anatolia's prehistory, the knowledge of which is almost entirely drawn from its cemeteries, and in the second half of the 2nd millennium B.C., in the western end of the extension of the yet largely obscure Arzawa Kingdom, an offshoot and usually a dependency of the Hittites, who themselves spread their direct rule as far as the coast during their Great Kingdom. That the realm of the 13th century B.C. local Luwian ruler who is depicted in Kemalpaşa Karabel rock carving at a distance of only 50 km (31 mi) from İzmir was called the Kingdom of Mira may also leave ground for association with the city's name.
