Foca is a cute little town on the Aegean Sea coast and is also famous for its Mediterranean seals from which it takes its name. There is old and new Foça, and the ancient city of Phokaia is located between the two Foças. Phokaia is one of the 12 Ionian cities and its name was mentioned in Homer's epic “The Odyssey.” The first inhabitants of old Foça were immigrants from Greece around the ninth century B.C.

According to the historian Herodotus, Phocaeans were good sailors and traveled long distances with fast ships with a capacity of 500 passengers.

Archeological excavations in Foça started in the early 1900s and several monuments from the Archaic, Hellenic and Roman periods including the remains of Temple of Athena and Sanctuary of Cybele, the Great Mother Goddess of the Phrygians in Anatolia, an open-air theater, castle, mosaics, fragments of ceramics and pottery etc have been unearthed. Some of the findings are currently on display at the İzmir Archaeological Museum.

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