Turkey is a land of sun, sea, and history.
As being one of the content resources of our Explore Turkey web site the book covers the most important ancient sites of Anatolia. Izmir, the ancient Smyrna, was erected on a much older city. It is at Bayrakli near Izmir that we see the traces of the first settlements. At the time, the city possessed wide frontiers. The ceramics of foreign origin discovered in the excavations indicate that the city flourished, particularly in maritime trade.