Today Ephesus stands on the western part of modern Turkey. Ephesus is 15 kilometers from Kusadasi port and city. Ephesus is located in Selcuk county of Izmir city of Turkey. Ephesus is 80 kilometers from Izmir and Izmir Adnan Menderes Airport. It takes 8 hours of driving from Istanbul to...
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Kusadasi Town Nearby Ephesus
Kusadasi is the largest resort on Turkey’s Aegean Coast, used by cruise ships as the gateway to Ephesus. Beside the harbor, the walls of the tiny Old Town/Caravanserai encircle scores of shops, restaurants, and nightspots. Jutting into the bay is Pigeon Island, a charming islet topped by a small Genoese...
Continue reading...Marble Street of Ephesus
Curetes Street is the main attraction in Ephesus because all of the best ruins and monuments will be welcoming us over here. Street used to be protected by Hercules, who can be seen on both sides of the entrance. It used to be a residential area too. Just like today,...
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Ephesus welcoming more than one million every year, thanks to its modern cruise port, used to welcome even more people back in ancient times back in ancient times. Port of Ephesus used to be the most important income of Ephesus City in its golden times. Port of Ephesus was the...
Continue reading...Odeon of Ephesus
The Odeon building has the shape of a small theatre with a stage building, seating places, and an orchestra. It had two functional uses. First, it was used as a Bouleuterion for the meetings of the Boule or the Senate. The second function was the Odeum – a concert hall...
Continue reading...Double Churches of Ephesus
The Church of Mary in Ephesus is also known as the Church of the Councils because two councils of importance to the history of Early Christianity are thought to have been held in this church. The church is located nearby the lower entrance of Ephesus. the great ecumenical council was...
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The remains of a woman who may have been Cleopatra’s sister have been found in Turkey. In antiquity, ordinary people were not buried within the city. That privilege was only for special people – those with an aristocratic background, or people who did special things for their city. So the...
Continue reading...Buying Ceramics Nearby Ephesus
People of modern Ephesus still go on making ceramics just like the ancient ancestors of them mastered in it. Also one should not forget that it is forbidden in Islam (most common religion in Turkey) to make paintings so for centuries Turkish artists found ways to create beautiful calligraphies to...
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Top Ten Phrases That You Will Need While Visiting Ephesus Merhaba (Mer-ha-ba) – Hello Evet (Eh-vet) – Yes , Hayır (H-eye-uhr) – No Lütfen (Lewt-fen) – Please Tamam (Ta-mam) – OK Bira lütfen, (Bee-ra Lewt-fen) Beer please Su (Soo) – Water Çok ucuz (Chok oo-juz) – Very cheap Çok pahalı...
Continue reading...Mazaeus-Mithridates Gate of Ephesus
Mazaeus-Mithridates Gate is the triple gateway next to the Celsus Library which opens into the commercial agora forming its southeast gate. According to the inscriptions in Latin, it was built by two freed slaves Mazaeus and Mithridates in honor of Augustus, his wife Livia, his daughter Julia and his son-in-law...
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