Elaea (Aeolis)

Elaea (Greek Ἐλαία ) was an ancient Greek city on the west coast of Asia Minor in the Aeolian landscape in today's village Kazıkbağları, southwest of Bergama Zeytindağ in the district in the Turkish province of Izmir.

Elaea lay at the mouth of Kaikos. In the 5th century BC Elaea became a member of the Attic Seebunds. Own coins shaped the city in the 5th and 4th century and again in the Roman imperial period ( 1st to 3rd century AD), as Elaea belonged to the province of Asia. During the Hellenistic period, the city served as a port for the lying in the interior of Pergamon. An earthquake taught in the year 90 AD to severe devastation. In late antiquity was Elaea seat of a bishop; to the diocese goes back the titular Elaea the Roman Catholic Church.

There are not too few archaeological remains of the city, especially the 200 m long pier. Since 2006 Elaea and its port facilities by the German Archaeological Institute are explored.