HISTORY

The Menemen- Aliağa- Çandarlı Motorway Project, which is part of the Kuzey Ege Otoyolu, starts from İzmir, one of the most important cities in the history of Western Anatolia, and extends to Çandarlı Port (96.7 km). This highway route passes through important historical and ancient cities. The most important of these are Smyra (İzmir), Neonteikhos (Yanıkköy), Larissa (Buruncuk), Kyme (Çakmaklı), Pitane (Çandarlı), Phokaia (Foça) and Pergamon (Bergama).

The earliest settlement of the region is the Aegean Fertilizer Neolithic Settlement near the ancient city of Kyme. (7th millennium BC). Smyrna, which according to the ancient geographer Strabo was named after an amazon queen, dates back to the 4th millennium BC. In the 11th century BC, Aeolian and Lonian cities consisting of 12 different cities were established in the region by the peoples coming from Northern Greece.

Neonteikhos, Larissa, Kyme and Pitane, which are located in the vicinity of the project route, are among the 12 Aeolian cities, while Phokaia is one of the Lonian cities. After the 6th century BC, Persian domination started in the region. After 333 BC, the Hellenes ended the Persian domination. The most important city of this period was Pergamon, northeast of Çandarlı, the last stop of the highway project. After these periods, the region, which was under Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman rule respectively, was occupied by the Greek army on May 15, 1919.

On September 9, 1922, Izmir was liberated from this occupation, and with the economic congresses organized and the factories built, the newly established Turkish state was able to provide