Ionian University of Smyrna

Ionian University
Ιωνικό Πανεπιστήμιο
Motto	Ex Oriente Lux (Out of the Orient, light)
Type	Public university
Active	December 1920–September 1922
Location	Smyrna (modern Izmir), Smyrna Zone (dependency of Greece)

The Ionian University of Smyrna (Greek: Ιωνικό Πανεπιστήμιο της Σμύρνης) was a university established by the local Greek authorities during the Greek occupation of Smyrna (1919–1922), today Izmir, Turkey. The initiative for the organization of the institution was undertaken by the mathematician Constantin Carathéodory. However, the University of Smyrna, the first to be established in the city,^[2] never operated due to the Greek defeat in the Greco-Turkish War and the subsequent evacuation in September 1922.

^ Paradise Lost Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of Islam’s City of Tolerance Archived 2012-03-13 at the Wayback Machine by Giles Milton, quote: The motto of Smyrna’s Ionian University, due to open its doors to all – irrespective of race or religion – in September 1922
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[1] Paradise Lost Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of Islam’s City of Tolerance Archived 2012-03-13 at the Wayback Machine by Giles Milton, quote: The motto of Smyrna’s Ionian University, due to open its doors to all – irrespective of race or religion – in September 1922

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