Although places like Ephesus, Philippi ... Nero's persecution of the new Christian sect was brief and, in the first century at least, was not repeated in other parts of the empire.

Ephesus was known as Ayasoluk (Ottoman Turkish: Ayasluğ). In 1914, it was renamed Selçuk after the Seljuk Turks who first led incursions into the region in the 12th century. Related PostsWork ...