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Extract from the Ayvalik Travel Guides:
AYVALIK
, 2km west of the main coast road, is a small fishing port that also makes a living from olive-oil production and low-key tourism; it makes a nice base for beach lounging and ruin-spotting at
Bergama
, 70km southeast. Refounded during the 1400s on ancient ruins, Ayvalak suffered two serious earthquakes last century, though the most devastating effect on the town occurred when its mainly Greek inhabitants were kicked out during the exchange of populations that followed the Greek-Turkish war of 1920-22. There's not a great deal to see, though its tangle of central streets, lined with terraces of sumptuous Greek houses...
read the whole Ayvalik Travel Guides...
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