A short history of Ephesus is shown in Wikipedia here &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephesus&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;EPHESUS&lt;b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

Ephesus was doomed by the silting in its harbor. By the 6th century the port had become useless, and the population had shifted to what is now Selçuk; today Ephesus is 5 km (about 3 mi) from the sea. The new city was surrounded by ramparts, and a citadel was built. In the year 1000, crusaders came from the west, Turks from the east. The first Seljuk invaders were fought off in 1090, and the Byzantines held out until 1304. The town was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the 15th century.