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Ephesus (/ ˈ ɛ f ɪ s ə s /; [1] [2] Ancient Greek: Ἔφεσος, romanized: Éphesos; Turkish: Efes; may ultimately derive from Hittite: 𒀀𒉺𒊭, romanized: Apaša) was a city in Ancient Greece [3] [4] on the coast of Ionia, 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) southwest of present-day Selçuk in İzmir Province, Turkey.
Çöp şiş, "small skewer kebab" – a speciality of Selçuk and Germencik near Ephesus, pounded boneless meat with tomatoes and garlic marinated with black pepper, thyme and oil on wooden skewers. [30] Döner kebap, literally "rotating kebab" in Turkish, is sliced lamb, beef, or chicken, slowly roasted on a vertical rotating spit.
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It was known as Ephesus Neopolis (Greek: Ἔφεσος Νεόπολις) during the Byzantine era, and later as Scala Nova or Scala Nuova under the Genoese and Venetians. [6] Kuş Adası was adopted in its place during the Ottoman period at the beginning of the 20th century. Today, the citizens of Kuşadası often shorten the town's name to Ada.
Heartbroken over the news, Alexis decided to embark on a self-imposed exile and leave from Ephesus forever, while Meliboea stayed behind. On the day the maiden was to be married to her betrothed, she decided to take her life and jumped off the roof of her house, but this failed and she landed on the ground uninjured. [2]
And although the construction of this church was by imperial order, the people of Ephesus were the ones who did much of the building. [10] The marble decorations were made in Constantinople and perhaps in Ephesus as well. The bases, column and capitals of the nave were made and imported from Constantinople or the quarries of Proconnesus.
Paeonius of Ephesus (/ p iː ˈ oʊ n i ə s / Ancient Greek: Παιώνιος Paiṓnios) (fl. c. 420 to 380 BCE) was an ancient Greek architect, one of the builders of the temple of Artemis at Ephesus. In conjunction with Demetrius, he completed the great temple at Ephesus, which Chersiphron had begun.