Foça

Foça is a municipality and district of İzmir Province, Turkey. Its area is 251 km2, and its population is 34,946 (2022). The town of Foça is situated at about northwest of İzmir's city center on the Aegean coast. The district has a settlement and former municipality named Yenifoça (literally "New Foça"), also along the Aegean Sea shore and at a distance of from Foça proper. For this reason, Foça itself is locally often called as Eskifoça ("Old Foça") in daily parlance.

Phocaea or Phokaia (Ancient Greek: Φώκαια, Phókaia; modern-day Foça in Turkey) was an ancient Ionian Greek city on the western coast of Anatolia. Greek colonists from Phocaea founded the colony of Massalia (modern-day Marseille, in France) in 600 BC, Emporion (modern-day Empúries, in Catalonia, Spain) in 575 BC and Elea (modern-day Velia, in Campania, Italy) in 540 BC.

Yenifoça (meaning "New Foça" in Turkish, the words sometimes spelled separately as "Yeni Foça") is a former municipality of the Foça district, in Turkey's İzmir Province. It was merged into the municipality of Foça in 2008.

1914 killing of Greeks in the Ottoman Empire

island in Turkey

island in Turkey