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Smyrna

Name: Smyrna
Address: Turkey

Flourishing Aegean port city of ancient Ionia (modern Izmir); home of the persecuted and impoverished Christian assembly commended without rebuke in the Book of Revelation.

Geographical Setting

Biblical Region: Asia Minor · Modern Location: Turkey · Coordinates: 38.4192, 27.1287 · Location Precision: confirmed

Events at this Location

Polycarp Confirmed Overseer of the Church in Smyrna
The Dispatch of the Revelation to the Seven Churches of Asia

Associated Journeys

The Apostle John: Aegean Exile and Return to Ephesus
The Circuit of the Seven Churches of Asia

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