id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8007 Ephesus - Wikipedia .html text/html 9923 1886 70 Ephesus (/ˈɛfɪsəs, ˈɛfəsəs/;[1][2] Greek: Ἔφεσος, romanized: Éphesos; Turkish: Efes; may ultimately derive from Hittite: 𒀀𒉺𒊭, romanized: Apaša) was an ancient Greek city[3][4] on the coast of Ionia, three kilometres southwest of present-day Selçuk in İzmir Province, Turkey. Some scholars suggest that this is the later Greek Ephesus.[5][14][15][16] In 1954, a burial ground from the Mycenaean era (1500–1400 BC) with ceramic pots was discovered close to the ruins of the basilica of St. John.[17] This was the period of the Mycenaean expansion, when the Achaioi (as they were called by Homer) settled in Asia Minor during the 14th and 13th centuries BC. The Seleucid king Antiochus III the Great tried to regain the Greek cities of Asia Minor and recaptured Ephesus in 196 BC but he then came into conflict with Rome. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8007.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8007.txt