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Definition of Smyrna
1. Noun. A port city in western Turkey.
Generic synonyms: City, Metropolis, Urban Center, Port
Group relationships: Republic Of Turkey, Turkey
Definition of Smyrna
1. Proper noun. (chiefly historical) A port city on the Aegean coast of western Asia Minor founded in ''circa'' the 11th century BC on the site of the present-day Turkish city of ?zmir. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Smyrna
Literary usage of Smyrna
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1820)
"AT the time when the events about to be narrated took place, an old merchant,
from Tunis, had arrived at Smyrna, and had hired a house on the sea-shore to ..."
2. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1901)
"What is a Smyrna fig, and in what respect does it differ from other figs?
The general character of the tree and fruit is apparently the same as in other ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The city of Smyrna rises like an amphitheatre on the gulf which ... Smyrna had
a celebrated school of rhetoric, was one of the cit ies which had the title ..."
4. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"Smyrna seems to me the most Eastern of all I have seen ; as Calais will probably
... One such looked out at Smyrna from our steamer, and yawned without the ..."
5. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1876)
"Ismir), a town of Asiatic Turkey, capital of the vilayet of Aidin, near the head
of the gulf of Smyrna, on the W. coast of Asia Minor, 210 m. ..."
6. Encyclopædia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary Political and by Thomas Kelly Cheyne, John Sutherland Black (1903)
"The people of New Smyrna were gifted with political sagacity which stood them in
... When the Romans finally occupied Asia, Smyrna became the centre of a ..."
7. Eothen by Alexander William Kinglake (1914)
"CHAPTER V INFIDEL Smyrna Smyrna, or Giaour Izmir, " Infidel Smyrna," as the ...
run down " by an English midshipman, who has set sail on a Smyrna hack. ..."
8. Public Organization in Ancient Greece: A Documentary Study by Nicholas F. Jones (1987)
"by Schmitt (OGIS), opens with a decree of the people of Smyrna (lines 1-33). ...
An oath to be administered to the people of Smyrna will bind them to the ..."
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