Izmir, the city that we had lived in for the last eight years no longer felt a home for I had said goodbye to friends there.

伊兹密尔那个我们居住了八年的城市，已不再有家的感觉，因为我已经挥别了那里所有的朋友。

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But I do not think it has ever occurred to me with such poignancy as in Izmir, the city the Greeks once called Smyrna, before their 3, 000-year-old living presence in Asia Minor was all but expunged.

BBC: A new wave of refugees in the city that was Smyrna

But some have gone further west to the coastal city of Izmir - a place itself scarred by wanton killing and destruction in World War I.

BBC: A new wave of refugees in the city that was Smyrna