Smyrna
      n : a port city in western Turkey [syn: Izmir]
 Smyrna
    myrrh, an ancient city of Ionia, on the western coast of Asia
    Minor, about 40 miles to the north of Ephesus. It is now the
    chief city of Anatolia, having a mixed population of about
    200,000, of whom about one-third are professed Christians. The
    church founded here was one of the seven addressed by our Lord
    (Rev. 2:8-11). The celebrated Polycarp, a pupil of the apostle
    John, was in the second century a prominent leader in the church
    of Smyrna. Here he suffered martyrdom, A.D. 155.
 Smyrna, myrrh