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I've been to Izmir several times, courtesy of Uncle Sam. They have a small museum there. They had an interesting exhibit of coins from the different cultures* that have lived in that area.

* Is that the right word to use? Civilizations?

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Sounds perfect to me. :’) A civilization means to build and live in cities, and it sounds like that’s been going on a while there. Catal Huyuk, a stone age site about 33 acres in extent, and hundreds of miles east of Izmir, was abandoned about 5500 BC, having existed for something like 3000 years. The idea that cities per se didn’t exist in prehistoric times got dumped some decades ago, when very large urban settlements from Neolithic times began to be identified.