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İzmir Province

Selçuk

Selçuk is a town in the region of Turkey, with a population of 36,360 in 2018. It's the original site of the city of - those Roman ruins lie 4 km west and are described on a separate page.
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  • Type: Town with 37,700 residents
  • Description: town and district in İzmir Province, Turkey
  • Also known as: “Akıncılar”, “Ayasuluğ”, “Ephesus”, and “Selcuk”
  • Historically known as: “Agios Theologos”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ephesus and Temple of Artemis (Artemision).

Photo: Kadellar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a UNESCO World Heritage Site with magnificent Roman ruins. It's in the region of Turkey 4 km west of Selçuk and 19 km northeast of the beach resort of .

Ruins
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The Temple of Artemis or Artemision, also known as the Temple of Diana, was a Greek temple dedicated to an ancient, localised form of the goddess Artemis.

Museum
Photo: Kpisimon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is an archaeological museum in Selçuk near the Ancient Greek city of , Turkey. It houses finds from the nearby excavation site.

Selçuk

Latitude
37.948° or 37° 56′ 53″ north
Longitude
27.3685° or 27° 22′ 7″ east
Population
37,700
Elevation
35 metres (115 feet)
United Nations Location Code
TR SCK
Open location code
8G99W9X9+5C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 212878614
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
301256
Wiki­data ID
Q876176
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Selçuk” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Selçuk”
  • Arabic: “سلجوق (إزمير)”
  • Arabic: “سلجوق”
  • Arabic: “سَلْجُوقُ”
  • Aragonese: “Selçuk”
  • Armenian: “Սելջուկ”
  • Arpitan: “Selçuk”
  • Asturian: “Selçuk (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Selçuk”
  • Azerbaijani: “Səlcuq”
  • Basque: “Selçuk”
  • Bavarian: “Selçuk”
  • Belarusian: “Сельчук”
  • Breton: “Selçuk”
  • Bulgarian: “Селчук”
  • Catalan: “Altoluogo”
  • Catalan: “Aya Soluk”
  • Catalan: “Ayasoluk”
  • Catalan: “Ayasuluk”
  • Catalan: “Selcuk”
  • Catalan: “Selçuk”
  • Cebuano: “Selçuk İlçesi”
  • Chechen: “Селчук”
  • Chinese: “Selçuk”
  • Chinese: “塞尔丘克”
  • Chinese: “塞爾丘克”
  • Corsican: “Selçuk”
  • Croatian: “Selçuk”
  • Czech: “Selcuk”
  • Czech: “Selçuk”
  • Danish: “Selçuk”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Selçuk”
  • Dutch: “Selcuk”
  • Dutch: “Selçuk”
  • Esperanto: “Selçuk”
  • Estonian: “Selçuk”
  • Finnish: “Selçuk”
  • French: “Selcuk”
  • French: “Selçuk”
  • Friulian: “Selçuk”
  • Galician: “Selçuk”
  • German: “Selcuk”
  • German: “Selçuk”
  • Greek: “Σελτσούκ”
  • Hebrew: “סלג’וק”
  • Hindi: “सेलसक”
  • Hungarian: “Selçuk”
  • Icelandic: “Selçuk”
  • Ido: “Selçuk”
  • Indonesian: “Selçuk”
  • Interlingua: “Selçuk”
  • Interlingue: “Selçuk”
  • Irish: “Selçuk”
  • Italian: “Selcuk”
  • Italian: “Selçuk”
  • Japanese: “セルチュク”
  • Kongo: “Selçuk”
  • Korean: “셀추크”
  • Kurdish: “Selçuk, Îzmîr”
  • Latin: “Selçuk”
  • Latvian: “Selčuka”
  • Ligurian: “Selçuk”
  • Limburgan: “Selçuk”
  • Lithuanian: “Selčukas”
  • Low German: “Selçuk”
  • Luxembourgish: “Selçuk”
  • Macedonian: “Селчук”
  • Malagasy: “Selçuk”
  • Malay: “Selçuk”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Selçuk”
  • Minangkabau: “Selçuk”
  • Moksha: “Сэльчук”
  • Narom: “Selçuk”
  • Neapolitan: “Selçuk”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Selçuk”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Selçuk”
  • Norwegian: “Selçuk”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Selçuk”
  • Ossetian: “Сельчук”
  • Persian: “سلجوق”
  • Persian: “سلجوک”
  • Picard: “Selçuk”
  • Piemontese: “Selçuk”
  • Polish: “Ayasoluk”
  • Polish: “Selcuk”
  • Polish: “Selçuk”
  • Portuguese: “Selçuk”
  • Romanian: “Selçuk”
  • Romansh: “Selçuk”
  • Russian: “Селчук”
  • Russian: “Сельчук”
  • Sardinian: “Selçuk”
  • Scots: “Selçuk”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Selçuk”
  • Serbian: “Selçuk”
  • Serbian: “Селчук”
  • Sicilian: “Selçuk”
  • Slovak: “Selçuk”
  • Slovenian: “Selçuk”
  • Spanish: “Selcuk”
  • Spanish: “Selçuk”
  • Swahili: “Selçuk”
  • Swedish: “Selçuk”
  • Swiss German: “Selçuk”
  • Tatar: “Селчук”
  • Turkish: “Selçuk, İzmir”
  • Turkish: “Selçuk”
  • Ukrainian: “Сельчук”
  • Urdu: “سیلچوک”
  • Uzbek: “Selçuk”
  • Venetian: “Selçuk”
  • Vietnamese: “Selçuk”
  • Vlaams: “Selçuk”
  • Volapük: “Selçuk”
  • Walloon: “Selçuk”
  • Welsh: “Selçuk”
  • Western Mari: “Селчук”
  • Wolof: “Selçuk”
  • Wu Chinese: “塞尔丘克”
  • Zulu: “Selçuk”
  • “Selçuk”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Selçuk”. Photo: CherryX, CC BY-SA 3.0.