Ancient site· Selçuk, İzmir

Ephesus

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Built1000 BCArea614.76 haStatuspart of UNESCO World Heritage Site

Ephesus is a ancient site in Selçuk, İzmir; The excavated marble city the ancients moved seven times — what stands today is the fourth Ephesus.

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The excavated marble city the ancients moved seven times — what stands today is the fourth Ephesus.

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Ephesus was an ancient Greek city on the coast of Ionia, in present-day Selçuk in İzmir Province. It was built in the 10th century BC on the site of Apasa, a city-state that had been the capital of Arzawa, by Attic and Ionian Greek colonists. During the Classical Greek era it was one of the twelve cities of the Ionian League, and it came under the control of the Roman Republic in 129 BC.

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  • Architectural remains from antiquity
  • The layered history of Anatolian civilizations

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