The name of the city of Izmir is not a proven knowledge of where it came from. However, the Erektids, who lived in the present-day Izmir region, fought the Amazons and prevailed; Thesee leaders said, married women with Amazon Smyrna, which gave the region its name and the name of Izmir, the most widely accepted view that came from Smyrna.
In addition, for many years ruled by the name of the city in the Ionian dialect Smurn, while in Athens polish Smryna he was writing. The Greeks pronounced the name of this city in the form of Smirni. However Smyrna word is not Greek, is the name of Anatolian origin, like many settlements in the Aegean Region. BC uncovered in early 2000, belongs to Kayseri Kültepe settlements are to be found in the text on behalf of some tablets to Tismurn. A `ti 'in Tismurna is a prefix, indicating a person or place name. Hence, the inhabitants of the Hellenes or Bayraklı mound drove this prefix and called the city Smurna. The name of the city was probably referred to as Smurnu between 3000 BC and 1800 BC.
The word dı İzmir, was written as Smyrne in the Old Ionian dialect and Smyrna in the Athens dialect. Today Hellenes in the form of Izmir to pronounce the name of the city, near the ancient city of Ephesus in recent years has traces of a village settlement referred to by that name. Probably they put the name of a queen from Ephesus to Ephesus in the village where they settled, and the information about this is found in ancient sources.
The old city of Izmir (Smyrna) was founded on an islet about northeast, approximately one hundred acres in the northeast of the bay. For the last centuries, the present-day Bornova plain formed by the mines brought by the floods of the Meles Stream and today's Mount Yamanlar, and the half-islet became a hill.
