Izmir history

In 1801, the Ottomans gave their permission for construction of the synagogues to begin.

The Alliance was originally founded in 1860, with the hopes of improving the education of Ottoman Jewry.

In 1867, İzmir finally became the center of its own vilayet, still called by neighboring Aydın's name but with its own administrative area covering a large part of Turkey's present-day Aegean Region.

In 1873, the European organization, Alliance Israelite Universelle, established a Jewish school for boys, and five years later, the Alliance founded a Jewish school for girls.

But due to the worsening economic situation in the Ottoman Empire, a mass migration of Jews from Izmir took place in the early 20th century, mainly to the Americas, Western Europe, and Israel, which brought the population down to 25,000 by 1905.

But after the Young Turks revolt of 1908, Jews and Christians alike began to be drafted into the Ottoman army and many Jewish families were beset by poverty and unemployment during this time, as the main breadwinners of the family were hauled off to war.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, the city was a favorite destination of French, British, Dutch and Italian merchants. İzmir, a multinational trade city in the Ottoman Empire, was occupied by the Greek army on May 15, 1919 after the First World War.

By September 1922 the Greek army had been defeated and was in full retreat, the last Greek soldiers leaving Smyrna on 8 September 1922.

With the establishment of the Turkish Republic in 1923, many Jews chose to emigrate.

The new building, which is now classified as a historic monument, was officially opened in 1928.

In this congress, the idea of ​​"fair" was first put forward and adopted by Atatürk and the foundations of the International Fair were laid in 1936.

The region, which was populated with slums after 1955, is hosting İzmir Mound, the first known settlement in İzmir.

Towards the end of 1960, 220 large firms, 11 of which belong to the state sector and 209 to the private sector, operate in various manufacturing branches in İzmir.

1966 BNP introduces itself to the public in 1966 - poster in Hauteville street in Paris

1970 "Le Centre d’Information Bancaire BNP" in Paris: a showcase for the bank’s innovation in the 1970’s

Of these, the district of Konak corresponds to historical İzmir, with this district's area having constituted the city's central "İzmir Municipality" (Turkish: İzmir Belediyesi) until 1984.

EGIAD is a non governmental organization (NGO) established in 1990 by 47 young industrialists and businessmen.

The finding of “Minyas” type stoneware can be taken as a clue that also here there was an Achaian (Achaioi: Myken) trade colony in the years around 2000 BC just as in a lot of Anatolian cities.

The 2004 discovery of Yeşilova Höyük and the neighboring Yassıtepe, in the small delta of Meles River, now the Bornova plain, reset the starting date of the city's past further back than previously thought.

In 2005, TEB entered into partnership with the BNP Paribas Group.

In 2013, the passing of Act 6360 established all thirty of İzmir Province's districts as part of İzmir's metropolitan area.