Sultan Murat IV brought with him the people who helped him during the Baghdad expedition and gave some of these people lands in Western Anatolia. One of them, Abdulkerim Aga, was given the Aliaga region.
The walls of Foça are actually a mixture of sections from the Ionian, Byzantine, Genoese and Ottoman periods, some of which have been carefully restored using the same construction techniques as the original builders.
Izmir, with its 8500 years of history, is located at the beginning of a long and narrow gulf in the west of the Anatolian Peninsula. Herodotus, the famous historian of the Ancient Period, described the city with its typical Mediterranean climate thousands of years ago a...
