Poyracık

Poyracık

Poyracık is a town in Kınık district of İzmir Province, Turkey. At it is very close to Kınık. Distance to İzmir is about . The population of the town is 5790 as of 2010. Poyracık is an old town and its history can be traced back to Gambrion of the 4th century BC. It was an important settlement...

 is a town in Kınık

Kinik

Kınık is a district of İzmir Province of Turkey....

 district of İzmir Province

Izmir Province

İzmir Province is a province of Turkey in western Anatolia on the Aegean coast, whose capital is the city of İzmir. On the west it is surrounded by the Aegean sea, and it encloses the Gulf of İzmir. Its area is 11,973 km.2, population 3.948.848 . The population was 3,370,866 in 2000...

, Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

. At 39°05′N 27°21′E it is very close to Kınık. Distance to İzmir

Izmir

Izmir is a large metropolis in the western extremity of Anatolia. The metropolitan area in the entire Izmir Province had a population of 3.35 million as of 2010, making the city third most populous in Turkey...

 is about 140 kilometres (87 mi). The population of the town is 5790 as of 2010. Poyracık is an old town and its history can be traced back to Gambrion

Gambrion

`Gambrion is an ancient city near Kınık and Bergama in İzmir province of Turkey in western Anatolia.It is on a hill named Hisarlık in Bakırçay valley and very close to modern town of Poyracık....

 of the 4th century BC. It was an important settlement during Pergamon

Pergamon

Pergamon , or Pergamum, was an ancient Greek city in modern-day Turkey, in Mysia, today located from the Aegean Sea on a promontory on the north side of the river Caicus , that became the capital of the Kingdom of Pergamon during the Hellenistic period, under the Attalid dynasty, 281–133 BC...

 state. In the middle age it became a part of Byzantine Empire

Byzantine Empire

The Byzantine Empire was the Eastern Roman Empire during the periods of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, centred on the capital of Constantinople. Known simply as the Roman Empire or Romania to its inhabitants and neighbours, the Empire was the direct continuation of the Ancient Roman State...

 . Sasa bey (a Turkmen bey of Aydınoğlu

Aydinoglu

The Aydinids or Aydinid dynasty , also known as the Principality of Aydin and Beylik of Aydin , was one of the Anatolian beyliks...

 beylik) captured the town and finally it became a part of the Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

. In 1937 it was declared a seat of township.