Ionia was an ancient region encompassing the central part of the western coast of Anatolia. It consisted of the northernmost territories of the Ionian League of Greek settlements. Never a unified stat
Mount Mycale, site of the Panionium
Gorgone with serpent, Ionia, 575-550 BC.
One of the earliest electrum coins struck in Ephesus, 620–600 BC. Obverse: Forepart of stag. Reverse: Square incuse punch.
Ionian soldier of the Achaemenid army, c. 480 BCE.
Phocaea or Phokaia was an ancient Ionian Greek city on the western coast of Anatolia. Greek colonists from Phocaea founded the colony of Massalia in 600 BC, Emporion in 575 BC and Elea in 540 BC.
The theatre of Phocaea
Stater coin from Phocaea with Griffin head; Circa 580 BC[citation needed]
Coinage of Phokaia, Ionia, c. 478–387 BC. Possible portrait of Satrap Tissaphernes, with satrapal headress
Electrum coinage of Phocaea, 340–335 BC