Tire (Ottoman Turkish: تيره; Greek: Θείρα, romanized: Theíra) is a municipality and district of İzmir Province, Turkey.

[4] Advantaged by its fertile soil and suitable climate, Tire district's economy largely relies on production and processing of agricultural products, especially of figs, cotton, corn and other grains, cash crops like tobacco and sesame, fruits like watermelons, cherries, peaches and grenadines and dry fruits like walnuts and chestnuts.

Tire center has an attractive old quarter with many impressive examples of Islamic architecture, and lively Tuesday and Friday markets, where the influence of the multicultural population of the surrounding villages can be observed.

These two markets on two days of the week are famous across the larger region and among visitors on excursion and tourists for the handcrafted items found on sale and they attract a large customer base.

A yearly event that also draws crowds to Tire is one of the liveliest and the most rooted (since 1403) celebrations in western Turkey of Nevruz Day on the third Sunday of every March.

Timur (Tamerlane) spent the winter of 1402/1403 based in Tire, after his defeat of the Ottoman forces at the Battle of Ankara, a span of time he used to capture Smyrna lower castle from the Knights of Rhodes, to acquire the city of İzmir fully for the Turks, and his stay here is also at the origin of Tire's noted Nevruz celebrations referred to above.

By the late 15th century, much like other cities in Anatolia and the Levant, Tire became a refuge for Sephardic Jews expelled from the Iberian Peninsula.

Later, during the late 19th century, the Ottoman government allowed Jews fleeing pogroms in the Russian Empire and Eastern Europe to settle in Tire.

The Midrash Dünyas synagogue, donated by community leader Çelebon Duenyas, stood as a symbol of resilience after the 1916 fire.

[7] The municipality of Tire center is one of the oldest in Turkey, having been established in 1864, coming the ninth across the country in terms of its anteriority.

The investments made to date have yet fallen short of modifying the district's overall economic picture, despite easy access through Selçuk to the close İzmir-Aydın motorway and to Adnan Menderes International Airport thereof.