Timeline of İzmir

Below is a sequence of some of the events that affected the history of the city of İzmir (historically also Smyrna).

He handed the city over to its former rulers, the Aydinids, as he had done for other Anatolian lands taken over by the Ottomans.

Audience by the Qadi of the French Consul of İzmir in a 17th-century engraving by Jean du Mont
İzmir 1714 in an engraving by Henri Abraham Chatelain