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Historical Tour Attractions In Izmir Province

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  • 1. Ephesus Tours Selcuk
    In Christian and Muslim tradition, the Seven Sleepers is the story of a group of youths who hid inside a cave outside the city of Ephesus around 250 to escape a religious persecution and emerge 300 years later. The earliest version of this story comes from the Syrian bishop Jacob of Serugh , which is itself derived from an earlier Greek source, now lost. An outline of this tale appears in Gregory of Tours , and in Paul the Deacon's History of the Lombards. The best-known Western version of the story appears in Jacobus da Varagine's Golden Legend. The Roman Martyrology mentions the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus under the date of 27 July . The Byzantine calendar commemorates them with feasts on 4 August and 22 October. The ninth-century Irish calendar Félire Óengusso commemorates the Seven Sle...
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