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- proper noun A
port city on theAegean coast of westernAsia Minor founded in circa the 11th century BC on the site of the present-dayTurkish city ofİzmir .
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- noun a port city in western Turkey
Etymologies
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Examples
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It was an accident that the name of the town Smyrna was the same as the name for myrrh, _Smyrna_ ([Greek: smurnê] σμύρνη), x which was not a Greek word.
Plutarch's Lives Volume III. 46-120? Plutarch 1839
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Chris is on staff full time at Life Point Church in Smyrna as the youth pastor and creative arts pastor.
A Few Pics from Church Lauren Thomas 2009
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Both families live in Smyrna, Del., and spend more than $500 a month on heating and electricity in the wintertime.
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Someone should call social services down in Smyrna if Paulie has really found your address.
Matthew Yglesias » For Democrats, Even a 2010 Win Will Feel Like a Loss 2010
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International Committee also sent additional secretaries and by January 1920 the YMCA had established branches in Smyrna, Adana, Aleppo, Aintab, and Konia, as well as other cities in the Near East.
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Imagine the readers of Athenian newspapers in Smyrna and Thrace ... yearning to be informed of Athenian developments regarding Hellenism and the national question; imagine the reader in Thessalia turning the pages seeking news about the agricultural question, only to stumble across the minutes kept in the National Assembly on the discussion of the women's vote!
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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Korais was born in Smyrna (1748 – 1833) to a mercantile family, but fled to Montpelier, France, in 1782, in an effort to escape the '... conservatism, formalism, and religious fanaticism of the Ottomans' (Velios, 1998: 10).
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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A German evangelical theologian, Axenfeld was born in Smyrna in Asia Minor, the son of a Prussian consulate pastor.
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A five-day Association conference was held at the International College in Smyrna in July to discuss political and educational opportunities in the Near East after the war.
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The YMCA expanded across the Near East with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and Associations sprang up in Smyrna, Adana, and Aleppo.
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