Definitions for "SMYRNA"
The ancient name for Izmir and the heroic Amazon who founded the city according to Herodotus and Strabon.
a port city in western Turkey
City on the west coast of Turkey, known today as Izmir. Part of Ottoman Anatolia during the First World War, it was awarded to Greece in the Treaty of Sèvres (10 August 1920). However, following military success over the Greeks, the new republic of Turkey reclaimed Smyrna in 1922 - a settlement that was upheld in the Treaty of Lausanne in July 1923.