Izmir is a historical city that archaeological excavations tell its goes back to 3000 B.C. The excavations on the Bayrakli ridges by Prof. Dr. Ekrem Akurgal since 1959, the discovery of the Zeus Altar by the German archaeologist Carl Humman in Pergamon (Bergama) between 1866 and 1878, the finding of the Artemis Temple in 1869 by the British Wood and the long excavations by Austrian archaeologists at certain intervals of the city of ancient Ephesus since 1904. Many mythologies are known about the source of the name of Izmir. According to the knowledge acquired from scientific studies the word "IZMIR" come from Smyrna in the ancient Ionian dialect and it was written as Smyrna in the Attican (around Athens) dialect.

In years of 3000 B.C. Western Anatolia was under a prosperous Trojan civilization influence. The settlement areas built on the Aegean Coast also urbanized generally under the Trojan influence. The Hittites which Homer wrote about in the Iliad, were an energetic force and civilization in the Anatolian mountain pastures because the Trojans were allies of the Hittites and they had a big influence on the Aegean settlements. As a matter of fact Pitane (Çandarli) in the Bakirçay River basin and similar settlements were built by the Hittites. It is believed that the Amazons lived in the area between Caria and the Lydia which today is the sides of the Yamanlar Mountains , and they carried on their existence until the arrival of the Aiolos and the Ions.

Till the 7th century B.C. Izmir got more affluent because of its trade with its neighbors especially Lydia . Its good neighbor relationships with Lydia lasted until the Lydians were occupied by the Persians. The Persian independence ended with Alexander the Great's emergence to Anatolia in 334 B.C. In these years, in which the Hellenistic period began, a new settlement was shaped around Kadifekale ( Mount Pagos ) and its city walls belong to the Hellenistic period and have undergone many restorations in the following periods.

Even though Izmir came into the possession of the Hun Emperor Attila, this authority did not last long and the city re-taken the Byzantines.

As inheriting from long history Izmir have numerous historical place to visit .Izmir have many examples of the Turkish culture built during the Ottoman period, they have adorned Izmir for centuries: The Sadirvan Mosque, The Hisar Mosque, the Konak Yali, the Hatuniye Mosque Mosque, the Kestane Bazaar Mosque, the Kemeralti Mosque, the Izmir Clock Tower, the Kizlaragasi Han (Inn - commercial building), the Mirkelamoglu and Cakaloglu Inns and other inns (trade places for spending the night), Bedesten (Ottoman's special trade constructions).

In the years of the struggle of freedom, Izmir underwent with huge destructions.Under great leader Mustafa Kemal Ataturk on September 9th 1922 , Izmir started to become a modern city of the young Turkish Republic and developed this character more everyday.