And in 1922 , when izmir 's christian quarters were burned down and destroyed , desperate armenians used their fluent french to talk their way onto warships from france .
1922年,伊兹密尔基督教区被焚毁,绝望的亚美尼亚人凭借着流利的法语成功登上了来自法国的战船。
Yet the voting map confirms the polarised picture seen after last september 's constitutional referendum : huge ak majorities across anatolia , but continuing support for the secular opposition in the west , especially in izmir and west of istanbul .
Armed with a firman , or ottoman permit , and financed by a group of rich backers in berlin , humann and his team , in 1878 , began excavating a site in bergama , near the modern city of izmir on the aegean coast of western turkey .
With a sharp eye for detail and a deep understanding of the dynamics of traditional empires and societies , mr mansel describes izmir ( formerly smyrna ) , as it flourished before the first world war and alexandria in the days before the triumph of egyptian nationalism in the 1950s .