Izmir, Turkey. Ruins of the ancient Greek city of Ephesus on a sunny day. Archaeological site in Selcuk.

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Izmir, Turkey. Ruins of the ancient Greek city of Ephesus on a sunny day. Archaeological site in Selcuk. Ephesus was an ancient Greek city on the west coast of Anatolia, near present-day Selçuk, Izmir Province, Turkey. It was one of the twelve cities of the Ionian League during the Classical Greek era. In the Roman period, it was for many years the second largest city of the Roman Empire; ranking behind Rome, the empire's capital. Ephesus had a population of more than 250,000 in the 1st century BC, which also made it the second largest city in the world. -

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Location: Izmir, Turkey
Photo credit: © Stefan Lambauer / Alamy / Afripics
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