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Aliaga
Aliaga is situated in the north-west of Izmir on the cost of Aegean Sea. The history of Aliaga has the features of the Symirnian and Pergamon civilisations and cultures. Among the antique cities are Ealia, Myrina, Kyme and Gryneron.
ALIAGA BEACHES The beaches expanding right across from the bay containing the Aliaga refinery facilitiy, have attained a modern appearance with the modern facilities and houses in the past period. The Aliaga beaches which have a natural beauty attract especially domestic tourists with its open and cabired beaches.
KYME
Kyme is the city of famous people. The city is situated near the Cakmakli village. It is one of the 12 Ionian cities and located at the Nemrut Bay. Sibylla, one of the four women soothsayers, the famous historian Ephorus had grown up in Kyme.
The site of Kyme, or Cymae, an ancient harbour city in Aeolis,is on the way to Yeni Foça(Phocaea Nuova) and at a distance of three hundred meters west of the Izmir-Bergama high-way.This site is presently called Namurt, or Nimrod's site.
The history of the town goes back to mythical times. According to a legend, it was founded by an Amazon named Kyme.The poet Hesiod,who lived in the eighth or seventh century B.C. reported proundly that his father was from that city.
Kyme became the center of the Aeolian Confereration ,just as the Panionium was the center of the Ionian League to the south.
The town submitted to Persian rule for about two centuries. It is understood from a passage of the historian Ephorus, quoted by Strabo, that the Kymaens lived peacefully in this period.
According to Pliny the Younger, Alexander the Great came to Kyme in 334 B.C. and offered to the temple of Apollo a candelabrum which had been taken from the city of Thebes in Greece.
The town became the seat of a bishopric during the Byzantine period and was later annexed to the Ottoman Empire by Mehmet I in 1413. It was finally abandoned because of the marshy land resulting from the overflowing of a winter stream.
Like Myrina, the site of Kyme has two hills separated by a narrow valley. The lower hill to the south, which we could call the Acrapolis, bears the remains of the old town, going back to the Archaic Period. On the other hand, the excavations, conducted in 1925 by a Checholosvakian expedition on the hill to the north, unearthen a sanctuary, dating from the fourth century B.C. and dedicated probably to Apollo, as mentioned by Pliny the Younger. The discovery of some Egyptian statuettes and a small Ionic temple at the same site led archeologists to conclude that a part of this sanctuary was later devoted to the worship of the Egyptian gods, such as Isis and Osiris.
The remains of structures which can be distinguished in the sea are those of two breakwaters, running westwards from the shore and dating from the Archaic period to the Roman Period. The cemetery-site of the town is located to south of the Acropolis on the plain, now called Biçerova. Here also are thermal springs which have been used from very ancient times.
Some isolated finds have been taken from this site to the Izmir Museum. The most interesting of these are the heads of Aphrodite and Athena, both Roman copies of Classical works, and the marble stela, bearing a series of ordinances ( Hellenistic Period ). Some other pieces also from Kyme and representing Cybele seated on a throne ( Archaic period ), the heads of Apollo and Artemis ( Hellenistic Period ) etc., are now in the archaelogical museum of Istanbul.
MYRNA
Myrna is placed on the last small bay where Güzelhisar Stream meets the sea at tha Candarli Bay. There are about five thousand tombs found in Myrna.
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