The Origin Of The Name “Izmir”
November 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
The Origin Of The Name “Izmir”
Izmir was written as Smurne in Ionian dialect and Smyrna in Athens dialect. Hellens used to pronounce it as Smirni. The name of Smyrna is not a Greek word but it is originally an Anatolian word as most of the settlement names in Aegean Region. The name of Tismurna was encountered in some of the tablets, which were found in Kültepe- Kayseri, dated back to the beginnings of 2000 B.C. ‘Ti’ is a prefix probably identifying a person or a place. It is obvious that people who lived in Bayrakli before Hellens deleted the prefix and named it as Smurna.
