Efes (or Ephesus) is another place of obligatory visit, I do not know if obligatory for everybody in the world, because the place was already quite overcrowded of tourists, but at least it would have been inexcusable if we had not visited it. Ephesus was an old city of the coast of Anatolia, which was governed by the ionians (a tribe similar to the lycians), the Persians, the Greeks, briefly by the pharaohs of Egypt, the Romans and the Byzantines. During the Roman domination, the city arrived to such a splendour that it got to have between 400 and 500 a thousand inhabitants, being the biggest Roman city of Asia, and maybe the second of the Roman empire.
Ephesus fue una antigua ciudad de la costa de Anatolia, que estuvo gobernada por los ionians (una tribu similar a los lycians), los persas, los griegos, brevemente para los faraones de Egipto, los romanos y los bizantinos. Durante la dominación romana, la ciudad llegó a tal esplendor que llegó a tener entre 400 y 500 mil habitantes, siendo la mayor ciudad romana de Asia mayor, y quizás la segunda del imperio romano.