Şirince

It is rumored that the original name Kirkinca was given to forty people who hit the mountains in a legendary age. This name, which took forms such as Kirkice, Kirkince and finally Çirkince in Greek pronunciation, was formalized as Şirince in the first years of the Republic by the instruction of Kazım Dirik, the governor of İzmir at the time.

In the 19th century it was a Greek town of 1,800 households, especially famous for the production of figs for export. With the departure of the Greeks as a result of the Turkey-Greece Population Exchange in 1923 (most of them settled in the Nea Efesos village of Katerini), it was settled by the refugees from the Müştiyan (Moustheni) and Somokol (Domatia) villages of Kavala. There are two Greek churches in the neighborhood.