The area of Old Smyrna near Bayrakl across the bay from the present Izmir was inhabited during the first half of the third millennium B.C.
About 600 B.C. Alyattes, the father of Croesus of Sardis, conquered and destroyed Smyrna. For nearly three hundred years, all through the classical Greek period, Smyrna remained a mere village or group of several small villages. Then it was awakened to glory and prosperity by Alexander the Great. The story goes that Alexander, soon after he came to the throne of Macedonia, defeated the Persians at Granicus about forty-five kilometers south of the Dardanelles. Pausing in Smyrna on his way to fresh victories at Sardis, Miletus, and Halicarnassus (Bodrum), he was out hunting on Mt. Pagus (KadifekaIesi) and slept near the sanctuary of the goddess Nemesis. She appeared to him in a dream and told him to move the people of Smyrna across the bay to the land below the hill which would make an excellent fortified citadel.
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