Smyrna

(smür'nah,) a fine and prosperous city and seaport of Turkey, in the Turkish p. of Natolia, Asia Minor, at the head of a noble bay of same name, 210 m. S.S.W. of Constantinople; N. Lat. 38° 25′ 36″, E. Lon. 27°6' 45". This place may be considered as the metropolis of the Levant, and is the emporium of a vast trade both with the interior and with foreign countries. Hero dot us states that it became an Eolian colony in 688 B. c., and later it figures in biblical history as one of the Seven Churches mentioned in Revelation. S. has at various times suffered much from fire and earth-| quake. Pop. 150,000.- The BAY OF GULF OF S., opening into the Ægean Sea, contains several small islands, and has a length of 45 m., by a width of 22 at its mouth. Smyrna, in Delaware, a vill. of Kent co., 36 m. S. of Wilmington. Pop. 2,110. [s. 834]