The İzmir Birds Paradise in Çiğli, a bird sanctuary near Karşıyaka, contains 205 species of birds.

The bays and gulfs of the Aegean beginning at the South and moving clockwise include on Crete, the Mirabelli, Almyros, Souda and Chania bays or gulfs, on the mainland the Myrtoan Sea to the west, the Saronic Gulf northwestward, the Petalies Gulf which connects with the South Euboic Sea, the Pagasetic Gulf which connects with the North Euboic Sea, the Thermian Gulf northwestward, the Chalkidiki Peninsula including the Cassandra and the Singitic Gulfs, northward the Strymonian Gulf and the Gulf of Kavala and the rest are in Turkey ; Saros Gulf, Edremit Gulf, Dikili Gulf, Çandarlı Gulf, İzmir Gulf, Kuşadası Gulf, Gulf of Gökova, Güllük Gulf.

The largest city in the Aegean Region of Turkey is İzmir, which is also the country's third largest city and second largest port after Istanbul.

The largest city in the Aegean Region of Turkey is İzmir, which is also the country's third largest city and a major manufacturing center ; as well as its second largest port after Istanbul.

The region also has many important centers of tourism which are known both for their historic monuments and for the beauty of their beaches ; such as Assos, Ayvalık, Bergama, Foça, İzmir, Çeşme, Sardis, Ephesus, Kuşadası, Didim, Miletus, Bodrum, Marmaris, Datça and Fethiye.

Ionia ( Ancient Greek Ἰωνία or Ἰωνίη ) is an ancient region of central coastal Anatolia in present-day Turkey, the region nearest İzmir, which was historically Smyrna.

On 10 August 1920, Mehmed's representatives signed the Treaty of Sèvres, which recognized the mandates, removed Ottoman control over Anatolia and İzmir, severely reduced the extent of Turkey, and recognized Hejaz as an independent state.

This party was closed down by its founders shortly after the İzmir meeting, which was a huge demonstration against the Republican People's Party.

He continued his studies at Maltepe Military High School in İzmir and then at the Turkish Military Academy, graduating in 2000, after which he returned to Azerbaijan.

On top of the same hill soars an ancient castle which is one of the landmarks of İzmir.

İzmir has had three castles historically – Kadifekale ( Pagos ), the portuary Ok Kalesi ( Neon Kastron, St. Peter ), and Sancakkale, which remained vital to İzmir's security for centuries.

İzmir International Fair ( IEF ), the oldest member from Turkey of the International Union of Fairs is held every year in August – September at Kültürpark, which covers an area of 421, 000 m² in the heart of the city with open-air theatres, the Painting and Sculpture Museum, art centers, amusement park, zoo, parachute tower, and other amenities.

There are 550 members of parliament ( deputies ) who are elected for a four-year term by the D ' Hondt method, a party-list proportional representation system, from 85 electoral districts which represent the 81 administrative provinces of Turkey ( Istanbul is divided into three electoral districts whereas Ankara and İzmir are divided into two each because of their large populations ).

The contiguous mass of Mount Yamanlar, also overlooking the Gulf of İzmir, has often been considered as an extension of Mount Sipylus massif with which it shares much history, although it is actually an extinct volcano and a distinct geographical formation.

The motorway connecting the two busy metropolitan centers that are İzmir and Manisa crosses between the two neighboring masses of Mount Sipylus and Mount Yamanlar, through " Sabuncubeli Pass ", much described by ancient travellers and writers and which descends from an altitude of 600 m to sea-level over a rather short distance in kilometers.

The very name by which the fruit was called in the world markets was " Smyrna figs " until recently, due to the preponderance of figs exported from İzmir over other species of the genus.

He coached the club for 18 months and moved on to coach Göztepe in İzmir which lasted one year.

The seat of the province to which Saruhan sanjak depended was the city of Aydın ( 1827 – 1841 and 1843 – 1846 ) at first, and was later moved to İzmir ( 1841 – 1843, 1846 – 1864 ).

Manisa was one the first cities in the Ottoman Empire to benefit from the arrival of a railway line, with the Smyrna Cassaba Railway, whose construction was started from İzmir in 1863 and which reached its first terminus at Manisa's depending Kasaba in 1866.

The big distributors in Istanbul, led by İpek Film and Kemal Film gradually expanded their distribution-system throughout the rest of the country during the 1930s, leading to the so-called " regional system " ( Bölge İşletmeleri ) which consisted of seven distribution areas with their headquarters being established in the most significant cities in those regions: Istanbul ( Marmara Region ), İzmir ( Aegaean Region ), Ankara ( Middle Anatolian Region ), Samsun ( Black Sea Region ), Adana ( Mediterranean Region ), Erzurum ( East Anatolian Region ) and Diyarbakir ( South East Anatolian Region ).

Following the Population exchange between Greece and Turkey in 1922, a number of refugees principally from Smyrna ( today's İzmir ) arrived and settled in the southwestern part of Athens, which became Nea Smyrni.

Founded on 20 July 1982, the university's name (" September 9th ") refers to 9 September 1922, the date, on which the Greek occupation of İzmir ended after Turkish Independence War.

As it is the case for İzmir's entire coastline, Karşıyaka benefits on a daily basis from the famous north-west wind called " imbat ", because of which ships in the Gulf of İzmir will always be anchored in a northwest-southeast position, and which cools the city during summer days.

It covers the entire west coast of the Anatolia peninsula and has its headquarters in İzmir.

As a notional zone, Alsancak extends from along the tip of the southern shores of the Gulf of İzmir, starting near İzmir's historic square that carries the same name as the district ( Konak Square ) with the 19th century-built Pasaport Quai marking the point, and extending along a 3200-meter-long seaside street and promenade called " Kordon " ( esplanade, or more specifically as Birinci Kordon, ) and to join the neighboring metropolitan district of Bornova, located eastwards and at the very end of the Gulf's waters.

Karşıyaka extends for twelve kilometres along the northern and eastern coastline of the tip of the Gulf of İzmir.

Irenaeus was born during the first half of the 2nd century ( the exact date is disputed: between the years 115 and 125 according to some, or 130 and 142 according to others ), Irenaeus is thought to have been a Greek from Polycarp's hometown of Smyrna in Asia Minor, now İzmir, Turkey.

Lydia ( Assyrian: Luddu ; ) was an Iron Age kingdom of western Asia Minor located generally east of ancient Ionia in the modern Turkish provinces of Manisa and inland İzmir.

Klazomenai ( also spelled Clazomenae, Greek: Κλαζομεναί, modern-day Kilizman in Urla near İzmir in Turkey ) was an ancient Greek city of Ionia and a member of the Ionian Dodecapolis ( Confederation of Twelve Cities ), it was one of the first cities to issue silver coinage.

Kayahan was born in İzmir, Turkey in 1949.

This intermission music ended up with the well known İzmir Marşı ( Izmir March ); a sign that the show time was approaching.

Both his parents were natives of Smyrna ( modern-day İzmir ), and he was greatly affected by his Greek ancestry.

Issigonis was born into the Greek community of Smyrna ( now İzmir, Turkey ) in the Ottoman Empire.

Some of the coins found indicate that there was once an economic alliance between Thyateira, Smyrna ( İzmir ) and Pergamon ( Bergama ).

Henri Langlois ( 13 November 1914, İzmir, Ottoman Empire – 13 January 1977 ) was a French film archivist and cinephile.

Greece occupied Smyrna / İzmir on 15 May 1919, while Mustafa Kemal Pasha ( later Atatürk ), who was to become the leader of the Turkish opposition to the Treaty of Sèvres, landed in Samsun on May 19, 1919, an action that is regarded as the beginning of the Turkish War of Independence.

Balladur was born in İzmir, Turkey, to an Armenian Catholic family with five children and long-standing ties to France.

Atatürk Museum, whose building is a survivor of the transformation in recent decades of coastline residences from terraced double-storey houses to apartment blocks, also offers visitors a chance to have a glimpse of how the lives of the wealhty in 19th century İzmir was like.

155 ) was a Christian bishop of Smyrna ( now İzmir in Turkey ).

In 1977 he was elected to the Turkish parliament, Grand National Assembly of Turkey, as deputy of İzmir.

Francis Vyvyan Jago Arundell, British chaplain at İzmir between 1822 – 1834, was the first person to define and study the city.

Nubar Pasha () ( January 1825, İzmir, Ottoman Empire-January 14, 1899, Paris ) was an Egyptian politician and the first Prime Minister of Egypt.

Nubar was born Nubar Nubarian ( Armenian: Նուպար Նուպարեան ) in İzmir in January 1825, the son of an Armenian merchant named Mgrdich, who had married a relative of Boghos Bey Yusufian, an influential minister of Muhammad Ali.

Ahmet Piriştina ( April 8, 1952 – June 15, 2004 ) was a Turkish politician and mayor of İzmir.

Ahmet Piriştina was born in İzmir, Turkey in 1952.

He was elected mayor of İzmir from Republican People's Party in two ( 1999, 2004 ) consecutive elections.