SMYRNAsmur'-na (Smurna):1. Ancient:Smyrna, a large ancient city on the western coast of Asia Minor, at the head of a gulf which reaches 30 miles inland, was originally peopled by the Asiatics known as the Lelages. The city seems to have been taken from the Lelages by the Aeolian Greeks about 1100 B.C.; there still remain traces of the cyclopean masonry of th... View Details