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: ''This article is about the ancient city. For the modern city, see Foça'' Phocaea (Greek: Φώκαια) (modern-day Foça in Turkey) was an ancient Ionian Greek city on the western coast of Anatolia. Greek colonists from Phocaea founded the colony of MassaliaPliny [link 3 (...)

Mordoğan is a sea-side township with own municipality in Karaburun district in Turkey's İzmir Province. The town is situated on the eastern shoreline of Karaburun Peninsula within the Gulf of İzmir at about twenty kilometers to the south of the district center of Karaburun. Mordoğan equals the district center in economic development terms, especially in tourism, and has a number of (...)

Balıklıova is a small village between Urla and Karaburun, in the Urla district, İzmir Province of Turkey. The meaning of the word Balıklıova comes from a "valley full of fish" (Balık: ''Fish'', Ova: ''Valley'') Particularly during summer time Balikliova has so many inhabitants. Since majority of households are summer houses, and summer sites (...)