id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7685 Smyrna - Wikipedia .html text/html 6427 1148 73 Smyrna among the cities of Ionia and Lydia (ca. Smyrna proper was the new city which residents moved to as of the 4th century BC and whose foundation was inspired by[citation needed] Alexander the Great. The core of the late Hellenistic and early Roman Smyrna is preserved in the large area of İzmir Agora Open Air Museum at this site. This has been conducted since 1997 for Old Smyrna and since 2002 for the Classical Period city, in collaboration between the İzmir Archaeology Museum and the Metropolitan Municipality of İzmir.[2] Modern İzmir was constructed atop the later Hellenistic city, partly on the slopes of a rounded hill the Greeks called Pagos[10] near the southeast end of the gulf, and partly on the low ground between the hill and the sea. It was one of the seven churches addressed in the Book of Revelation.[12] Saint Ignatius of Antioch visited Smyrna and later wrote letters to its bishop, Polycarp. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7685.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7685.txt